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 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/
