On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 14:22:56 -0500, Gord Tomlin wrote:
>
>I don't know whether the OP's lack of choice on software is due to finances or 
>administrative restrictions. I'm going to go ahead on the assumption that it's 
>a lack of dollars.
> 
If the OP can use a (free) zip utility, the archives can be extracted on z/OS
with jar.  Conversion to EBCDIC can be done individually with iconv or en masse
with pax. <CR>s can be stripped with sed or tr.

On Administrative restrictions: "Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst 
vergebens."

>wc3270 is a variant of x3270, built to run on Windows. x3270 contains IND$FILE 
>support.
>http://x3270.bgp.nu/
>
>Passport provided a FTP client for Windows. I believe this has been taken over 
>by Rocket and renamed to something else, and I don't know whether they 
>retained the FTP client.
>https://filezilla-project.org/
>
>Windows itself contains a line-mode FTP client. If you want GUI, FileZilla is 
>good and free.
>
>7-Zip is a good free alternative to WinZip.
>https://www.7-zip.org/
>
Beware! 7-Zip (by default?) creates a default archive format incomprehensible
to customary zip utilities.


On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 12:33:28 -0700, Sri h Kolusu wrote:
>
>Why not use the good old DOS commands in batch to combine all the text
>files into a single with header of the file name?
> 
He said he hasn't "good old DOS commands"; only "wc3270 or NOTEPAD++".

-- gil

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