On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 16:00:40 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:

>What's wrong with goof old Infozip?
>
NIH.

jar works fine for me, except for files created with 7zip and some of its fancy 
options.

It's very unlikely that zip creates an ASCII file.  Perhaps IBM-1252, UTF-8, 
Quoted-Printable.
Base64, ...?  Or just binary.

with the "-aa" option, Info-Zip might convert ASCII members->EBCDIC, (FSVO 
each.)

>________________________________________
>From: MARTIN, MIKE
>Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2023 10:33 AM
>    ...
>We have z/OS 2.4 and we are wondering if we can unzip an ASCII file that was 
>zipped on the Windows platform.
>
>I've seen references to gzip, Ported Tools, 3rd party software.   What are our 
>options for unzipping a file with the z/OS 2.4?

-- 
gil

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