On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:51:06 -0600, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 16:03:34 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: >> >>The problem is Windows / DOS uses CR+LF and Unix just uses LF (newline) >>(as does MAC from what I read). So if your FTP is to another Unix >>platform, you will be fine. Unix uses 0x0A and windows / dos use >>0x0D 0x0A. "tr" can't do that so you need a script (sed?)... search google >>for "unix2dos" >> >Windows is not a problem for me. I don't do Windows. I didn't >even know you could run Windows under z/OS (refer to "Subject:" >line). I don't understand that statement. Where does it mention windows in the subject line. > >But I do want EBCDIC (much as it pains me to think I'd ever >say that), not ASCII. EBCDIC is the lingua franca of z/OS >Unix. So I need some way to get EBCDIC with the 0x15 line >terminators that z/OS Unix requires. Putting a tr filter >in every file access is not a solution, particularly since >some applications open files internally, inaccessible to >tampering to insert filters. > I'm not sure I understand this either. Are you talking about transfer files from MVS data sets into z/OS Unix file systems as EBCDIC? Or are you talking about an NFS client issue when accessing z/OS Unix from another system / platform? What / where are you processing the files? Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
