On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:39:20 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Am I the only one who gets a lot of weird characters trying to read the two >supposed EXEC's at that link? Both valJCL.txt and jproc.txt (links on that >page) appear not to be EXEC source at all. > >Even uploaded in binary, they do not appear to be EBCDIC, nor do they look >like an XMI file, nor do they look like compiled REXX, so I am at a loss how >to run them or customize them. > >Are these by any chance compressed or "tersed" files? The author certainly >doesn't say so on that website. > >Peter > >> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/articles/valjcl.html You are not the only one. Using "wget" on linux to retrieve those two links, I got them in "gzip" compressed format. I repeated the "wget" 3 more times. Once out of the four attempts it came in ascii text form. When it came in "gzip" form the http headers preceding it included "Content- Encoding: gzip". Bill Godfrey ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
