Tapes (was Topic List (was Survey))

[Griff Smith]

In article <1990Sep12.162503.3778 at wolves.uucp>, ggw at wolves.uucp (Gregory G. Woodbury) writes:
> The real fun though, (and I probably misspoke myself above) is that more
> often we have tapes from an EBCDIC environment.  In most cases, the
> EBCDIC tapes have labels that are ansi compatible, but are encoded in
> EBCDIC instead of ascii.  Additionally, the programs I have seen are all
> level 2 or worse in terms of label standard.  I could live with level 3,
> but level 4 would be wonderful!
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> We are going to try writing our own, and I may be able to publish it
> here on the net, but I would like to avoid reinventing the wheel.
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The AT&T ToolChest has a package of tools for interpreting EBCDIC tapes.
It's mostly aimed at tapes generated by COBOL or PL/1.  Part of the
package is a program generator that writes custom translation programs.
Label processing is included, but the only labels it pays attention to
are {VOL,HDR,EOV,EOF}1 and {HDR,EOV,EOF}2.
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