Hi,

Assuming the has "PI@PPP" on the tape, try:

  FILE PPP;DEV=8; REC=-100, 10, F, BINARY;LABEL="PI@PPP"

(note the quote marks around the PI@PPP)

I don't know if that will work, but at least MPE/iX accepts the
syntax (on my system, which is MPE/iX 6.0).

Good luck!

If you cannot get MPE to accept a label with an at-sign (@), and
the tape has one, you can try to read the tape as follows:

   :file ppp; acc=inout; dev=8; rec=-100, 10, f, binary
   :fcopy from=*ppp; to = ....whatever you want...
e.g.:
   :fcopy from=*ppp; to = ; files=3; char; hex

That will cause a reply to come at the console asking for permission
to write over the labelled tape...say "Y" ... this is safe because
(1) you won't enable the tape for writing; and (2) you are not going
to be trying to write to it either!

The drawback to this workaround is that you'll see all of the labelled
tape overhead stuff....which will cause you extra work.

Stan
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