On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:13:15 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:

>In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/24/2007
>   at 03:18 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
>>Not if the changes also retained information about where each member
>>ends.
>
>Are you taking about modifying the directory structure? If not, they
>have to find it before they can retain it. If so, they'd have to
>modify IEBCOPY compress processing, and they'd break every program
>that reads the directory.

Probably not.  There is already space in the directory for "user data" and
IEBCOPY can already deal with that just fine.  They would, however,
break every program that uses the user data area in the directory entries.

-- 
Tom Marchant

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