Bill Richman wrote:
  I've been doing some web searching and reading the
"TV Typewriter"
 book concerning puched tape encoding schemes, and I'm a bit confused. 
...
  while having the reader software ignore them, I'd
like to follow some
 kind of established standard.  Can anyone give me any pointers on
 this? 
I can tell you about the MOS Technology paper tape format, as used
by the KIM-1 and some other 6502-based machines.  It's also a format
that some EPROM programmers accept, but unlike Motorola S-Records,
it's limited to a 16-bit address space.
   
http://www.gifford.co.uk/~coredump/mosptp.htm
This format is used by the Compukit UK101's Extended Monitor.  The UK101
documentation calls it "checksum format".
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John Honniball
coredump(a)gifford.co.uk