On 2016-04-21 12:31, Davis Johnson wrote:
I haven't heard any mention of ANSI labeled tapes as a data format. OS
support varies, and interpretation of the standard varies perhaps even
more.
Right. But it's still a standard, which is a good start.
I never liked them much (I never had good tools for them on my real
hardware). In theory it should be a reasonable common format.
Yes. But here again we hit problems pretty soon. The ANSI labelled tapes
means you can have files, and the files consist of records. But that is
all. How should these files be interpreted? Are they text? Binary data?
What should we do with binary data? Different systems might store
additional data to answer these questions, but then we get into system
dependent bits, which are not in the standards, and differ from one
system to the next.
We're no closer to a solution. But we've added a bunch of subsystems
that people will be guaranteed to mess up.
Johnny
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