James Matheson <jmrm@eng-dsl> (01/10/85)
> From: david%UUCP.ukma@cl-steve (David Herron, NPR Lover) > Subject: Re: Needed: Labelled tape utility. > > > From: jmrm%cuedvax@UCL-CS.ARPA > > I have a program which will write ansi standard labelled tapes containing > > ascii data ... our IBM installation is quite happy to convert ascii > > to/from ebcdic for ansi tapes. > > Lucky you. Our computer center seems to enjoy blitzing tapes. They > also make it unduly DIFFICULT to use their system at all... The IBM document "OS Tape Labels" states that for ANSI tapes "Operating system support consists of processing labels and translating from ASCII to EBCDIC on input and from EBCDIC to ASCII on output."