On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:09:43 -0500, John McKown 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? > I was thinking terse, then tar; even as you suggested terse, then zip.
Pax reads and writes legacy data sets on the archive side only. >> 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". > No, no; I was thinking UNIX files on the tersed side, not the untersed. Now, it's possible to terse and cp the archive to a Unix file, and even unterse directly from the unix archive provided you precatenate an empty legacy data set !?!?. I.e. you'd like to terse to NFS files mounted from your Linux system, then pax on Linux. -- 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
