Is anyone familiar with the "internals" of CSRCESRV run-length compression? I am familiar with RLE schemes in general -- typically a run of n identical characters is replaced with something like <escape><n><character>. Does anyone know the specifics of z/OS's scheme? What is the escape character? How is <n> specified? Is it <escape><n><character> or <escape><character><n>. How do they handle occurrences of <escape> in the original data? (A typical scheme is <escape>1<escape>.)
Thanks. I'm getting a 16 from CSRCESRV SERVICE=EXPAND and I am trying to debug. The data *is* compressed by CSRCESRV but I am obviously fouling something up. Charles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
