In a recent note, "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" said: > Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 16:39:38 -0300 > > In <[log in to unmask]>, on 09/23/2005 > at 03:43 PM, Kirk Talman <[log in to unmask]> said: > > >Used to be any file can be placed in SYSOUT=B and shipped anywhere as > >a binary image. > > There's nothing special about SYSOUT=B. By convention, B is typically > defined as a punch class, but that just means that the control byte is > stacker select rather than carriage control; it's still there, and the > data are still broken up into records. The standard way to send binary > files is with IDTF encoding, using the XMIT command. > I'm not sure that convention, widespread as it is rises to the status of "standard". And appropriate as is is for many tasks, I suspect its product is unlikely to be suitable for a PDF-savvy printstation.
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