On Tuesday, 05/01/2007 at 04:30 ZE2, Rob van der Heij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/30/07, Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you use the subcommand "ebcdic", the "type e" and "mode b" subcommands > > will be issued for you. > > Would you need to qualify that statement? (like but only with z/VM 5.3 > or on odd days)? > > I already started to feel dumb for doing both TYPE E and MODE B when > going from VM to VM. But today I used just EBCDIC to transfer a packed > file. The resulting file was indeed F 1024 but COPYFILE refused to > unpack it... > > When I look at the console I see EBCDIC only do a TYPE E
(sigh) No, you're right. As usual. :-) I'm just so used to doing both, I forgot that I type 'ebcdic' AND 'mode b'. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
