On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 07:50:10 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: >On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:51:06 -0600, Paul Gilmartin 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. > Exactly; nonetheless, you spun Windows into the thread.
>>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? Almost. Mounting Classic (MVS) data sets at a z/OS Unix mountpoint so they can be processed by z/OS utilities without "transfer". >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? > See the subject line again. The only OS involved is z/OS; no Windows; no Mac; no Unix other than z/OS Unix. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
