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    VMSPREP(LOCAL)	    UNIX Programmer's Manual	   VMSPREP(LOCAL)

    NAME
         vmsprep - VMS tape preperation aid

    SYNOPSIS
         vmsprep [-] [name ...]

    DESCRIPTION
         Vmsprep traverses hierarchies of files and prepares them for
         transportation to VMS.  Since ANSI stardard tapes (the VMS
         standard) do not allow hierarchy, this program provides a
         method of flattening the hierarchy onto a tape in such a way
         that it can be unpacked on VMS to recreate the same tree
         structure.

         For reasons best not described here, vmsprep will attempt to
         exclude all RCS and SCCS archives by ignoring all files or
         directories named 'RCS' or 'SCCS', or files starting with
         's.' or ending in ',v'.

         The output of vmsprep is a pair of files vmsprep.namelist
         and UNPACK.COM.  vmsprep.namelist is a list of files to be
         placed on the tape in the format required by ansitape. If
         the first argument is '-' instead of a file or directory
         name, vmsprep will instead send the namelist to standard
         output, and place UNPACK.COM in /tmp to avoid attempting to
         write in the current directory.  All of the files except
         UNPACK.COM will be placed on the tape under cryptic names.
         UNPACK.COM is a VMS command script which will recreate all
         of the necessary directories and then move the cryptically
         named files to their proper place.

         A typical sequence would be:
    	  vmsprep - tree1 tree2 file | ansitape cln trees -
         Then on a VMS machine
    	  mount MFA0: trees
    	  copy MFA0:*.*.* *
    	  @UNPACK

    FILES
         vmsprep.namelist
         UNPACK.COM

    DIAGNOSTICS
         A warning is reported if a file or directory name contains a
         character not permitted in VMS names. The offending charac-
         ter is replaced by 'Z' and vmsprep continues.

    SEE ALSO
         ansitape(l)

    BUGS
         Extra periods in file names may not be dealt with optimally.

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    VMSPREP(LOCAL)	    UNIX Programmer's Manual	   VMSPREP(LOCAL)

         All files and directories to be moved must be descendants of
         the current working directory.  Absolute path names and
         paths containing ".." will produce unpredictable results.
         Since vmsprep uses find(1) internally, it does not follow
         symbolic links.
         The exclusion of RCS and SCCS files should be controlled by
         a command line flag.
         Assumes VMS v4.0 or greater for long file names.

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