Thanks guys for this answer. I guess I was overthinking it, and thinking the checksum value was really a code. I will let him know to check that the file was downloaded Binary, and that each transfer was really successful.
You've been a big help - as always! Billy On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 4:36 PM, Paul Gilmartin < [email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 15:04:45 -0600, John McKown wrote: > > >On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 2:41 PM, Bill Ashton wrote: > >> > >> He ran into an error using BPXBATCH for a PAX command, but could not > find > >> any documentation after searching on Google for nearly an hour. The > error > >> message looks like this - *pax: checksum error on tape (got #####, > expected 0)* > > > >I think this means that the PAX archive is corrupt. Did you ensure that > >it's trail amongst all systems was a BINARY one? > > > And use cksum(1) at all steps along that trail. > > >I am not an expert on this, but I think that there is a "hash value" > >(checksum) associated with the PAX archive. The PAX command which creates > >the archive adds in some "extra" so that the overall checksum is zero. So, > > > That can be done only for a fairly weak checksum, else bitcoin would be > very cheap. > > >IOW, the #### value does not have any real meaning, ... > > > >ref: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695299/utilities/pax.html > >=== > >... > >> and the ##### is some hex value, like eb0a or 1015b. He got this even > >> though he wasn't even using tape - must be a standard message. > >> > They oughta fix that. The Command Ref. uses "archive file"; the message > should agree. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Thank you and best regards, *Billy Ashton* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
