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What are those strange file names in the listing of the tape?

April 26, 2017file listing names Strange tape

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What are those strange file names in the listing of the tape?

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If you requested the tape to be written in group format, the listing will look strange. In order to write the group formatted files on tape, the group information is written in a table (extension “tab”) and the data have a “_cvt” attached to it.