>:FILE BIGMESS;DEV=TAPE;LABEL=,IBM;REC=....
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>Off the top of my head that lets you tell MPE the label value via REPLY.
>Haven't done this in years though.  Anybody remember better than me? My
>laptop doesn't run MPE (HP: why not?) so I can't check it out right now.

Tried this at home on MPE V; Wow! It did ask for a reply for LABEL name.
Now I can possible use a generic file equation.
FILE IN;DEV=TAPE;LABEL=,IBM,,NEXT;REC=8192,1,U,ASCII

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