> On Oct 10, 2017, at 6:43 PM, Charles Anthony via cctalk
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 3:29 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Gang;
>>
>> I'm running some old (>50 years) 7 track tapes and I've come across an
>> oddball tapemark. Instead of 17 octal with a 17 LRCC and even parity,
>> I"m getting 17 00 17 - and the 00 is in the correct (for the tape, odd)
>> parity.
>>
>> I don't know what system wrote this. Does this ring any bells with
>> anyone? CDC perhaps--I don't recall.
>>
>>
> Vague memory from CDC 6000 SCOPE... end of record marks with a parameter?
> EOR 0 to EOR 17?
CDC end of record or end of file marks are not tape marks. They are data
blocks (very short ones).
paul
