Description
A disk utility for VAX/VMS, written by Wolffield Software for home users.
Provenance
Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. Read once, slowly, on a restored drive. A second pass was not attempted. About 88 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
d717368924f57e9c07834e4f292b7491aed2cca7d60188f4929fdcd8a95f7bc3- Last verified
- Oct 10, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-VAX-4 · lz-vax core
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- Kept in cold storage in Vancouver
Access
Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-VAX-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on VAX/VMS.
Cite as: Wolffield Software, HelixUtilities (1978). Lazarus Archive, LZ-23577.