On Monday 15 June 2009, Kirk Wolf wrote: > I could be wrong, but I don't believe that zip allows input from > stdin. If info-zip uses fopen() to open files, then it might be > possible to read mvs datasets directly as input files.
I've never tried it, but here's a quote from the zip man page: > zip also accepts a single dash ("-") as the name of a file > to be compressed, in which case it will read the file from > standard input, allowing zip to take input from another program. > For example: > > tar cf - . | zip backup - Cheers, Bob ---- Bob Woodside Woodsway Consulting, Inc. rwoodsi...@woodsway.com http://www.woodsway.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html