We could teach the “file" command on linux to recognize such files. It
just uses signature-type information.

On 5/19/16, 4:27 PM, "Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Scott Rohling"
<[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote:

>If I 'browse' (or TYPE for that matter)  a COPYFILE packed file - it looks
>much the same as it did from the Linux...
>
>That being said - if I was the cms-fuse developer I would probably push
>back on this...   just because XEDIT was smart and did the unpack
>internally doesn't mean the driver should try and do the same.   Isn't the
>onus on the application opening the file to read it correctly - just as it
>is in under CMS?    Is cms-fuse supposed to incorporate the unpack?  What
>about terse, vmarc, et al?    Seems like a slippery slope unless I just
>plain misunderstood you.  (never happens :-)

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