🚀 go-pugleaf

I got such a wealth of answers from my last query here, I thought I
would try again (thanks to all who responded!).

We have some software that was originally developed on IBM PCs, then
ported to Unix and VMS, which we want to distribute.  I think I can
handle the PC/Unix details for doing that, but I'm not sure about VMS.
Does anyone have a standard procedure for packaging VMS distribution
software on nine-track tape?  Presumably you would use BACKUP for the
copy operation; do you need to use INTERCHANGE mode if you're going
VMS to VMS?  Are there other modes we need to know about, or is this
the wrong approach entirely?  Does the directory information get 
preserved on the tape, and does that cause problems at the receiving
end?  If anyone has any sample DCL scripts they use for creating
tapes like this, or something similar they could annotate, I would
be most grateful if you could send it to me.

Thanks in advance for the help!

Tom Cunningham     "Good, fast, cheap -- select two."
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