On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 12:51:40 -0500, John McKown wrote:
>
>So, in any mixed platform environment, the beginners are at a disadvantage.
>That is one reason given for the "Windows only" mantra chanted here. There
>is no need for people to be as intelligent or knowledgeable.
> 
Ah!  A principle of uniform disadvantage!  Make it as unpleasant as possible, 
but the
same for everyone.

On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:00:38 -0500, John McKown wrote:
>>
>> All archiving facilities such as ADRDSSU, TERSE, TSO TRANSMIT, pax, IEBCOPY,
>> ... should treat their archives as featureless streams which can be wrtteh
>> to CKD DASD, tape, directed to UNIX files (which could be piped to network
>> or transmitted via FTP BINARY), ...  Extraction should ignore record 
>> boundaries
>> in those archives.
>
>​I agree. Given that XMIT only works with FB/80, I think it would be
>"reasonable" for it to "assume" that any UNIX data stream fed to it is
>implicitly FB/80 and just process incoming data in 80 byte "chunks" (aka
>records).​
> 
Does RECEIVE work if you BPXWDYN( "alloc dd(INFILE) FB80 path(...) ...")?
For some utilities (e.g. TRSMAIN) it helps to pre-concatenate an empty temp
CKD data set.)

CMS shareware VMARC demands FB80.  A generous contributor enhanced it
it so it also accepts VB80 (MVS programmers: think VB84.)  Underreaching.
It should at least accept FTP's default attributes.

-- gil

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