ANSI standard labelled tapes

[James Matheson]

> From: david%UUCP.ukma at cl-steve (David Herron, NPR Lover)
> Subject: Re: Needed: Labelled tape utility.
>
> > From: jmrm%cuedvax at 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."