[Info-vax] Editting paper tape

[Paul Sture]

In article <slrnk7c1cu.lkm.brown at libra.gmcl.internal>,
 Rob Brown <brown at libra.gmcl.internal> wrote:

> On 2012-10-10, Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote:
> > In article <k51v8l$g5r$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist 
> > <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> >> 
> >> Right.
> >> It was originally "Tape Editor and Corrector", and the tape referred to 
> >> is paper tape.
> >
> >    You can edit and correct paper tape?  I thought that required a hole
> >    punch and some glue.   8-)
> >
> Reminds me of when I was in high school, editting my paper tapes
> offline on an (I think) ASR-38.  Typing mistake?  Backspace the tape,
> and then insert the RUBOUT character (%o377) the appropriate number of
> times.  When you were done, you could run the tape back into the the
> ASR-38 tape reader and simultaneously punch a new tape.  The RUBOUTs
> were skipped during the copy and you got a clean tape out.

That reminds me of an editor and perhaps another utility on RT-11.  It 
was explicitly documented that rubouts would be stripped from the output 
file.

-- 
Paul Sture