On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 10:25:54 -0700, Jack J. Woehr wrote:
>
>IBM blundered with the 'scp' command on z/OS and made it automatically and
>uncontrollably convert text.
>
>scp is universally outside z/OS a binary transfer protocol which knows nothing
>whatsoever of the content it transfers.
>
>z/OS users are forced onto the inferior sftp which in the Unix world is merely
>an scp-knockoff nod to decades of
>scripting ftp.
>
Have I ever mentioned that I hate EBCDIC!? http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM
IBM blundered by making UNIX System Services based on EBCDIC rather than ASCII.
It might yet be made impartially bimodal but until then customers will suffer.
On occasion, I've resorted to such as:
ssh user$zOS "cd somewhere && pax -w . | iconv -f ISO8859-1 -t
IBM-1047" | pax -rv
And I think once again of Samuel Johnson's politically inorrect dog.
-- gil
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