On Thu, 01 May 2008 15:50:09 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I am the proud owner of several unloaded partitioned data sets, dating > back to my days on OS/360 and OS/370. > > Does anyone have any code I could use to decode these? I don't mean the > EBCDIC-to-ASCII (or to UTF-8) conversion -- I mean the weird file format. > > Or documentation about this file format? > > Or will I have to reverse-engineer it myself? Not that that's likely to > be an insurmountable task. I just suspect that somewhere, someone has > already done it. > > -- hendrik > > OK. It looks as if I will reverse-engineer the file format. Based on what I've seen here, and looking at the file, it doesn't look too difficult -- simpler than installing OS/360 on an emulator, anyway!
Except -- my investigations last night indicate that my archive is damaged -- all the 800-byte blocks have been truncated to 512 bytes. Not much even an emulator can do about that, at least until I locate another copy somewhere. Funny -- of all the tapes I've archived this way, this is the *only* one that's suffered damage. I doubt that OS/370 would have cheated me on block size. The 512-byte size seems like a Unixism to me. I'll have to find a 9-track tape reader before I can proceed. Thanks. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
