On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > What's the advantage of zip without compression over pax? tar?
Most Windows people have zip and "know what it is". But, in this case, it might be better to pax the files. Does pax read and write legacy datasets? > > Dammit! why won't AMATERSE tolerate HFS files, NFS files, or > POSIX pipes allocated with JCL or DYNALLOC as its TERSE'd > datasets? Likely that "header information" referred to earlier specified things like DSORG, LRECL, RECFM, and other things that don't really apply to a UNIX file. Not that AMATERSE could not be expanded to support UNIX files by using some other values in that "header information". > > -- gil -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: Ein Stein. Maranatha! John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
