On Sep 15, 16:15, CLASSICCMP_at_timaxp.trailing-edge.com wrote:
> Subject: RE: Tape Storage for Dummies
[Attribution lost] wrote:
> > but quite a few "common" ISO/ANSI standards seem to
> >have ECMA equivalents (ISO9660 is a definite example).
>
> It looks to me like ECMA-13, "File Structure and Labelling of Magnetic
> Tapes for Information Interchange", may be the equivalent.
>
> >Copies of these standards cost money to obtain from ISO or ANSI, but the
> >identical ECMA documents are available free of charge from the ECMA web
site at
> >http://www.ecma.ch/.
>
> ECMA-13 isn't available electronically, but it does indeed seem to be
> the case that they will provide hardcopy free of charge.
Many of the ISO standards are just the nationally-approved copies of the
ECMA standards. As has been pointed out, they're not all available online,
but they will supply hardcopy free -- it just takes several weeks to get
them :-) Or you can order the ECMA CD-ROM, which has most of the
standards, including many that are not online.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Tue Sep 15 1998 - 18:04:44 BST