On Jul 18, 2014, at 10:19 , Dave G4UGM <dave.g4ugm at gmail.com> wrote:
The answer to:-
Does it need to see two characters there?
Do they have to be DEL?
Is almost certainly "NO", but I would preserve them, as removing them
destroys the historical integrity of the images....
I will certainly preserve the original images "as-read", even including strings
of NULs where the tape creator made a tape splice, for historical purposes. I want to make
sure that my probable future tape-manipulation utility will have the right feature set for
new tape creation, so I'd like to learn about any conventions, as well as any must-do
and must-not-do rules for various systems.
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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/