The .tar format doesn't have any compression - it just puts a fixed-length header record in front of each file and appends them all together. So it would be much easier to unpack in pipes IMO.
Unfortunately, I don't have anything you can steal - I only did it the other way round. I built a pipe to put all of my precious CMS files in a .tar so I could rescue them when the mainframe got decommissioned :-( -Matt -----Original Message----- From: CMSTSO Pipelines Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: 21 October 2009 22:57 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Move files and preserve timestamps 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
