[Info-vax] RMS internals?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <h5sdqe$bvq$3 at naig.caltech.edu>, glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
> 
> I remember reading EBCDIC tapes on the PDP-10, and then VAX.
> Finally after some time I managed to convince OS/VS2 to write
> an AL (ANSI label) tape with ASCII data, just like VAX/VMS liked.

   I'm not sure what OS we were running on our 360/75, but when I
   told it to generate AL tapes it put an EOV label at the end which
   convinced VMS 3.x that there was another tape to follow.

   But if I made the tape on VMS and told the 360 it was AL, it read
   it fine.