On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:

> o VMARC self-extracting archive:
>  - Is there any legal liability if it damages the customer's
>    system?

I feel very bad about that idea!  We don't want to teach VM sysprogs
to accept gifts from strangers like that....

I use VMFPLC a lot. At least I can scan the file before loading it to
disk. But what I normally would want is the full FST info to see
whether it would fit on disk and whether it is different from what I
am going to replace. I wrote a pipeline stage that displays the
contents of a VMARC file in LISTFILE style. I probably should do the
same for VMFPLC.

Another option is netdata format. It's known to be F 80 so record
boundaries can be restored as well.
Back in the old days, the Piper and myself exchanged files as netdata
| encode64 inside mail. The mail agent (on CMS) would pick the files
and stuff them in my reader so normal CMS commands could be used to
handle the files again. One of my co-workers wondered where the
"Received from JOHN at CPHVM1" in his NETLOG came from :-)

Rob

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