On 15/03/2021 3:13 am, Mike Schwab wrote:
How about a parameter to specify the code page conversions? Or can the output be an XMIT file so an XMIT viewer be used?
The output can be an XMIT file if the original dataset was XMIT format. But only if there is no EBCDIC-ASCII translation.
I said I don't know why the original does the translation, but that's not entirely true. I have a strong suspicion.
When it does the decompression it has the original RECFM and LRECL information and can use that to insert the line separators. If you do it later you need to know the original LRECL for fixed RECFM, and it's impossible for variable records because the original implementation throws away the record length information.
However, the limitations of EBCDIC to ASCII translation mean that if you do the translation, it can't really be considered lossless (de)compression.
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