In article <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>Hello.
>
>I have a tape I am trying to fcopy down to an hp3000 N class. The
>sender created it on an AS400 with specs:
>
>133 width
>record = 133
>blocking factor 100
>with line feed
>
>No matter what combination of widths, cctl and nocctl I use I end with
>something that does not align... Something weird about the file is

I receive a tape from the post office that is labeled IBM.  I have to process
the tape as follows.

BUILD DISCFILE;REC=-427,1,F,ASCII
FILE T;DEV=7;REC=17080,1,U,ASCII;LABEL=XXXXXX,IBM
FCOPY FROM=*T;TO=DISCFILE;EBCDICIN;DEBLOCK=-427

With your example you would have to build the disc file with REC=-133,
then the tape equation would be REC=13300,1,U,ASCII and then use
DEBLOCK=-133 in fcopy.  I researched this years ago, so I don't remember
the reasoning for this, something to do with even byte boundaries, but it
continues to work well. Without the DEBLOCK parm, the disc file
records would not align correctly.

HTH

Gordon Montgomery
Living Scriptures, Inc
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