Hi! I need to know if it is possible to open Backup files created in OpenVMS under windows? The file extentions are bck. I'm just a shadow of my former self!

Hello, There is no Windows program to read OpenVMS backup files, as far as I know. Assuming your goal is to transfer files to the PC, you can use ZIP for OpenVMS instead of BACKUP. ZIP is available as freeware at http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/f... More specifically, if you're using an Alpha, it is at http://h71000.www7.hp.com/freeware/...

Backup files are kind of like tar files -- all the files are smooshed together. There are some tools that let you pull out individual files, but they are not very useful. Each VMS file has an associated characteristics block that controls how to interpret the file. There are several different kinds of "text" files, for instance. The tools are not equipped to do this conversion. If you *really* need to read these files, I have a conversion service to help: http://www.stanq.com/conversion.html

I know this post is a year old but i have exactly the same problem. Maybe now there's some software i can download (either free or relatively cheap) that does the conversion? it can be either mac, windows or ubuntu but something. can anyone help? thanx