> Ive got a tape here from what I believe to be a VM system. The > structure is unknown to me, although I can possibly take a stab at > it. Lots of data between tapemarks that seems to consist of a number > of records that start out something like this (translated from > EBCIDC):
I think this might be the older VMFPLC (not VMFPLC2) format, used by IBM for software distribution and other things. The format seems fairly simple: Five character block header (x'02' 'CMS' 'N' or '0'), 800 bytes of contents. First block is the FST for the file. https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003b.html#42 Old VMFPLC may be just CMS TAPE DUMP under the covers. De
