User's Manual

AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE (ANSI) LABELED TAPES
XEROX LASER PRINTING SYSTEMS TAPE FORMATS MANUAL 1-11
HDR3-9, EOV3-9, EOF3-9 labels
These operating system labels are optional. The formats of the labels
are shown in table 1-5.
UVL, UHL, UTL labels
These are optional user labels. Their format is described in table 1-6.
Block sequence indicator
Tapes recorded with the optional block sequence indicator referred
to by the appendix of the ANSI Standard X3.27—1969 cannot be
printed.
Table 1-5.HDR3-9, EOV3-9, EOF3-9 labels
Name
Character
position(s) Field Description
Label identifier 1-3 1 This is the 3-character identifier HDR, EOV, or EOF.
Label number 4 2 This is a 1-digit number from 3 to 9.
Operating system option 5-80 3 This field may have any of the characters defined as
“a” characters in ANSI Standard X3.37—1969.
*In some operating systems, EOF2 and EOV2 may use this format.
Table 1-6.UVL, UHL, and UTL labels (ANSI tapes)
Name
Character
position(s)
Field Description
Label identifier 1-3 1 This is the 3-character identifier UVL, UHL, or UTL.
Label name 4 2 For UVL, this may be a number from 1 to 9. For UHL
and UTL, this may be any of the characters defined in
ANSI Standard X3.27-1969 as “a” characters.
User option 5-80 3 This may be any character defined in ANSI Standard
X3.27-1969 as “a” characters.