Guru's:

I was recently asked a question that I've never thought about really (thanks
to MPE), and was going to respond with a off-the-hip answer, but decided it
would probably be answered here in a more exact way.

From what I understand, MPE/iX does not use blocking when writing files.  Or
rather it handles it all, and specifying it on the file equation doesn't
matter.  For that reason I usually omit the blocksize and leave that option
blank.  This isn't a problem on the MPE side.  However, a programmer has
asked what the result would actually be when the file is written to tape.
In this case, it's an IBM labeled tape.  What blocksize would the IBM see?

Code is as follows:

                !FILE T;DEV=TAPE;REC=-350,,F,ASCII;DEN=6250;LABEL=BONUS,IBM
                !RUN FCOPY.PUB.SYS
                        FROM=W816920;TO=*T;EBCDICOUT
                        E
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