[Info-vax] Editting paper tape

[Paul Sture]

In article <nospam-3003B6.13191511102012 at news.chingola.ch>,
 Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> wrote:

> 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.

Nulls too. From the TECO User's Guide (Page 119):

"<NULL> A null (ASCII 0) encountered as a TECO command will be ignored. 
Numeric values are not affected. A null read in from an input file will 
be discarded (except under RSX-11 and VAX/VMS). A null typed in from a
terminal will be ignored."

-- 
Paul Sture