It may work better to create the NFS export space and mount it RW from an
ASCII client workstation - then build the install tree from the ASCII
client.



On 3/14/06, Michael MacIsaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Tim,
>
> > is the "-e" meaningful on a Linux system
> I believe that is recommended in the SuSE documentation. On Linux the -e
> flag is used to enable interpretation of the backslash-escaped characters.
> And there does not appear to be any more backslashed characters in the
> script, so you can probably safely delete the flag.
>
> However, the bigger question is "Will this work?"  I haven't heard of
> anyone using z/OS USS to do serve the install tree. The issue of ASCII <=>
> EBCDIC will almost certainly come into play.  The install tree will have
> both binary and text files.  I'm assuming you were planning to export the
> directory in NFS as binary, so text files should come across as ASCII
> (though you will probably not be able to read them in USS).
>
> The order and instorder files, however, might be a problem - I assume the
> script will create them as EBCDIC.  While you're hacking out the -e flag,
> you may want to hack in an EBCDIC => ASCII command - what is it iconv?
>
> Just some thoughts. I may be missing some assumptions. Let us know how it
> goes.
>
> "Mike MacIsaac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>   (845) 433-7061
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