On Saturday, 05/21/2016 at 02:00 GMT, WF Konynenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Aye, from what I have read about these packed files here, it seems to me > to be much like the various compressed file formats in use on Linux/Unix > (.z, .gz, .bz, .xz, etc), except that perhaps the CMS pack tool neglects > to modify the file name extension to indicate that this is now a packed > file.
There is no 'neglect'. Packed-ness is not tied to the filetype. > That means the "native" way to deal with these on Linux would be > to implement some "cmspack" utility which can pack/unpack such files (as > was indicated, the assembler source code is available so it's easy to > figure out how to do this and reimplement it in a bit of C code), and > teach the file command about this file format so it can correctly report it. If folks think having a separate utility and teaching Linux folks to recognize a packed CMS file when they see it is the right way to go, then I sure won't stand in the way! Alan Altmark Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant Lab Services System z Delivery Practice IBM Systems & Technology Group ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 mobile; 607.321.7556 [email protected] 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
