In article <[email protected]> you wrote:
> What incantation of tar or pax do I need to use to create a tar ball under 
> Unix System Services such that it can be transferred to a Linux system and 
> untarred there? Just the straight -cf doesn???t seem to do the trick nor 
> using the -U -X option.
> Neale

You don't say what error you're receiving. If it's a permission problem,
use the -o option to disable tar from passing the owner across. I do

tar -cvof a.tar dir

and untar on linux with

tar -xvf a.tar

with no isssues. 

Whenever I extract a tar file on z/OS, I do the same kind of thing. e.g.

tar -xvof a.tar

If I don't do that, the sender's UID is set and I can't delete the
files and I have to get someone with root to delete them. 

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Don Poitras - SAS Development  -  SAS Institute Inc. - SAS Campus Drive
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