On 10/21/09 15:47, Avery, Matt wrote:
One way of sending files from unix along with metadata is to put the files in a .tar archive.
Of course. Or zip. ARCUTIL undoes zip, I think.
Unpacking .tar in pipes would be a doddle.
Not if I have to write it. Can I steal it? (What's a doddle?)
Only downside is that you would have to deal with all the ASCII/EBCDIC translation, rather than offloading that job to FTP.
There are stages for that. DEBLOCK | XLATE. I used to know a lot of this stuff. -- gil
