On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:23:44 -0500, John McKown wrote:
>
>Why the XMIT at the end instead of another TERSE? Because TERSE'ing the PDS
>would likely just use CPU with little futher compression.
>
Yes, but XMIT expands it somewhat with control sequences.

>Of course step 2 assumes that you have a single volume with enough space to
>contain the PDS with all the members. If this is not true, then I'd likely
>download each TERSE'd dataset to my desktop. Once on my desktop, I'd use
>"zip" without compression to combine the TERSE'd datasets into a single
>"zip" file.
>
What's the advantage of zip without compression over pax?  tar?

Dammit! why won't AMATERSE tolerate HFS files, NFS files, or
POSIX pipes allocated with JCL or DYNALLOC as its TERSE'd
datasets?

-- gil

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