Jerry, that is not totally correct.  You indeed have to translate the ASCII
stuff to EBCDIC, but you must make the translation skip over packed decimal
and other binary stuff by judicious use of for example,
EBCDICOUT=(10,14),exclude .

Kind regards,

Denys. . .

Denys Beauchemin
Hicomp America, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From:   Jerry Fochtman [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Tuesday, July 08, 1997 8:25 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: Fcopy 400 MB file to tape

At 09:20 AM 7/7/97 -0400, Joe Geiser wrote:
>On Saturday, June 28, 1997 9:21 AM, Max & Gloria Buten
>[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] wrote:
>> We want to copy a 400 MB file to tape to send to an IBM system.

It's been awhile so apologies if this no longer applies...I seem to recall
that if the data is ASCII, you need to convert it to EBCDIC when writing
the tape for IBM.  We use to do this with the ;EBCDICOUT (sp) option in
FCOPY.