On Wed, 2 May 2018 15:27:25 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: >> >> RECFM=VBS,LRECL=X would seem natural for processing UNIX files. >> >> Not sure exactly what you mean by "processing". Do you mean as a format >for making a copy of a Unix line-oriented file with a possibly very large >line length? > Yes. Or even non line-oriented. Sometimes scientific data come that way. Decades ago I read of someone who had 200 BPI tapes with no gaps generated by a data acquisition device. (The digital logic to insert gaps would have been too expensive in that era.) He dealt with it by reading it with a non-terminating channel program and writing to a higher density with gaps.
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