On 28/11/2016 7:10 AM, Edward Gould wrote:
On Nov 27, 2016, at 4:53 PM, Edward Gould <[email protected]> wrote:
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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
<http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM> <http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM
<http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM>>
which came first the chicken or the egg?
Did you bother to read the link? It says that the 360 was planned to be
an ASCII machine but they rushed it out as bi-modal and then didn't
communicate the p-bit to the developers. A blunder that has cost
hundreds of millions of dollars in processing costs
over the decades, and that is probably a conservative estimate.
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.
If you don’t like EBCDIC go play in the ASCII world.
He does! We all do. Most of the people whinging about EBCDIC on here
also work on *nix systems. EBCDIC is a terrible anachronism but
unfortunately we're stuck with it.
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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