Article 127072 of comp.os.vms:
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From: everhart@star.enet.dec.com (Glenn C. Everhart)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Mount or read VMS filesystem from Unix ?
Date: 15 Aug 1995 12:53:19 GMT
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While it's true that the ods-2 reader is a utility that lists directories
or reads files, I also developed a read-only ODS-2 filesystem that runs
on DEC Unix (and some others; I wrote it to be portable and it built clean
on HPUX and ran there too). That work was done for Intraco Systems in Boca
Raton, Fla., and I don't know if they will sell it as pure software or not.

At any rate you can contact them via email (email to jack@intraco.com for
the boss, or Tabor@intraco.com for technical questions). The filesystem
that you get gives a unixish view of the VMS structures, but it will ignore
case so that you can specify

/vmsfs/mydir/foo/bar.mumble

or 

/vmsfs/MYDIR/FOO/BAR.MUMBLE

to get to [mydir.foo]bar.mumble assuming a mount point of /vmsfs.
(Actually case can be arbitrarily mixed). The access doesn't cache as
much as VMS so some operations are slower but it did work. Normally it
treats variable record length files as text and transfers with text
type conversion, and transfers other types as bit images. This can be
overridden.

It may be that the setup they have is still the "edit a few files to set
the thing up" sort of thing as I left it; Bill was going to add a fullscreen
frontend configurator but may not have had time to do so.

They also have remote tape and disk that allow VMS to use disks (or
files) that physically are on a dec unix box, or tapes on a dec unix box,
as though local to a vms (axp ro vax) system. Those run over tcp/ip
and in the case of disks allow r/w access from VMS; this access can be
mixed with the filesystem also with a little care.


Intraco's address is

Intraco Systems, Inc.
1356 N.W. 2nd Ave.
Boca Raton, FL 33432
407 367 0600


Glenn