On Monday, 05/23/2016 at 02:41 GMT, Mark Post <[email protected]> wrote:
> I recently came across a question in an online forum where the poster 
was asking how to tell if the
> input their program was reading was base64 encoded.  The various 
responders were suggesting all
> sorts of things they could check to get some idea if it might be or not. 
 My suggestion would have
> been "try to decode it and see if it works.  If it does, it was base64 
encoded."  I suspect
> something similar is going to wind up having to be done here.

XEDIT reads the entire file into memory.  If at any time during that 
process, there's a glitch in unpacking the file, XEDIT abandons the 
unpacking and assumes the file wasn't packed after all.

Alan Altmark

Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant
Lab Services System z Delivery Practice
IBM Systems & Technology Group
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