On Thu, 8 Jun 2023 09:49:57 -0400, Rick Troth wrote: >This "file tagging" is completely new for me. Please pardon my ignorance. > <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=pages-automatic-code-set-conversion> It's fairly old. It was once described to me as a kernel facility. It appears now that it has kernel and/or CRTL components.
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=descriptions-chtag-change-file-tag-information> <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=descriptions-extattr-set-reset-display-extended-attributes-files> > ... >How did we get here? > A rush to market and preserve compatibility with existing punched card and 7-channel tape codes with economic constraints of the cost then of digital logic that might have performed the conversion in hardware. Is the late Bob Bemer's "goof" paper available on the Wayback Machine? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
