Clint

Here is a snippet from a job that regularly writes tapes for the IBM
boys. They've never complained, so I presume they work. Thing to watch
for is the scratch tape your'e writing to. If it originally was used for
one of these fcopy's, all ok. If it is an unlabelled normal friendly HP
type tape, all ok. If it carries a DIFFERENT IBM label, best you scratch
it the HP way (by storing something small onto it), otherwise you will
spend the rest of the day at the console fighting with the :recall, and
:reply commands (which I've never really understood when it comes to
tapes).

Good luck.

Neil Harvey

      !file t;dev=7;rec=-300,76,f,ascii;den=6250;label=PM86SA,ibm
      !fcopy from=persin;to=*t;nouserlabels;ebcdicout

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>>We need to create a tape with 1 file on it to be sent to an IBM shop.
>>We have tried using FCOPY, but we must be doing something wrong because
>>the company with the IBM keeps telling us that they can't find an EOF
>>marker.  I'm sure this is possible, is anyone doing this and how are you
>>doing it?  Thanks in advance.
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