in addition the the good info that Stewart Thomas wrote, I would add that z/OS USS files can be tagged with a codepage.
You can see this using ls -lT, and modify using the chtag command. We have USS filesystems mounted on zLinux (with "default" codepages in the mount command as Stewart documented) from a z/OS Server and the translation is automatic down to the individual file level. So even though we specify in the mount that translation should be from EBCDIC to ASCII I can also access files that are tagged as ASCII on the z/OS USS side. mark ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
