On 2/03/2016 8:07 PM, Vince Coen wrote:
Just of of completeness you can call the program direct if you have not
yet set up the paths by running :
/bin/gzip -V[ etc ]
Yikes! What's gzip doing in /bin on a z/OS system?
That said the bin directory should already be in the search paths so
On 3/03/2016 11:13 AM, David Crayford wrote:
On 3/03/2016 11:04 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 10:23:12 +0800, David Crayford wrote:
I've got no idea why Rocket would choose to use tarballs. It would have
been a much better idea to use compressed pax archives like the
On 3/03/2016 11:04 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 10:23:12 +0800, David Crayford wrote:
I've got no idea why Rocket would choose to use tarballs. It would have
been a much better idea to use compressed pax archives like the original
IBM ported tools.
Yes. But on (some) GNU
On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 10:23:12 +0800, David Crayford wrote:
>
>I've got no idea why Rocket would choose to use tarballs. It would have
>been a much better idea to use compressed pax archives like the original
>IBM ported tools.
>
Yes. But on (some) GNU Linux:
man pax
...
-z Use the
On 3/03/2016 1:24 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
I'm calling Rocket remiss in providing a gzip that can't be bootstrapped
using only base z/OS facilities. Hardly forgiven in that many desktop
systems (which Rocket may have used for packaging) provide uncompress
but not compress because of (expired)
On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 12:03:05 -0500, Rick Troth wrote:
>On 03/02/2016 12:50 AM, Jack J. Woehr wrote:
>>> So I go and download the GZip for z/OS package, and it says use
>>> 'gzip' as the 1st step to install from the supplied '*.tar.gz' file.
>>
>> If you have Gnu tar on the system, tar takes a
On 03/02/2016 12:50 AM, Jack J. Woehr wrote:
So I go and download the GZip for z/OS package, and it says use
'gzip' as the 1st step to install from the supplied '*.tar.gz' file.
If you have Gnu tar on the system, tar takes a gzip switch
tar zxvf myfile.tgz
Right, but 'tar' handles
Just of of completeness you can call the program direct if you have not
yet set up the paths by running :
> /bin/gzip -V[ etc ]
That said the bin directory should already be in the search paths so
check it via
echo $PATH
If not add it to your profile (or for all users if wanted).
.
Vince
Bruce Hewson wrote:
So I go and download the GZip for z/OS package, and it says use 'gzip' as the
1st step to install from the supplied '*.tar.gz' file.
If you have Gnu tar on the system, tar takes a gzip switch
tar zxvf myfile.tgz
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Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of
Hello David,
thank you - that worked.
1st:-
ITSXSA3:/u/bruce: >cd bin
ITSXSA3:/u/bruce/bin: >gzip --version
gzip 1.2.4 (18 Aug 93)
Compilation options:
DIRENT UTIME HAVE_UNISTD_H
2nd:
ITSXSA3:/u/bruce/local/gzip/gzip-1.6-edc/bin: >gzip --version
gzip 1.6
Copyright (C) 2007, 2010, 2011 Free
You can find the older pre-Rocket version of ported tools here
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/features/unix/bpxa1ty1.html.
On 2/03/2016 10:23 AM, Bruce Hewson wrote:
Well, there I was trying to install Perl for z/OS Unix, and it says use 'gzip'
as the 1st step to install from the
Well, there I was trying to install Perl for z/OS Unix, and it says use 'gzip'
as the 1st step to install from the supplied '*.tar.gz' file.
So I go and download the GZip for z/OS package, and it says use 'gzip' as the
1st step to install from the supplied '*.tar.gz' file.
I tried a few
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