Subject: Re: Formatting software tape image, anyone?
To: John Wilson <wilson@dbit.dbit.com>
From: Jay Maynard <jmaynard@conmicro.cx>
List: port-vax
Date: 04/13/2000 16:51:22
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 05:46:04PM -0400, John Wilson wrote:
> I forget what OS/360 labels look like?  I kinda remember them being
> complicated...

Not too, actually: a volume label, one or two dataset labels (all of which
are 80 bytes), then the data itself...but a variable record length dataset
can and sometimes does have differing physical record lengths in a single
dataset.