In
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 11/03/2005
   at 08:28 AM, Skip Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>We have an internal client who suddenly has a need for 'PKZIP' (not
>sure if that name is proprietary). 

It is.

>They are transferring huge files (3 -4 gig) from some other platform 
>(probably Unix) to z/OS. They need to reduce transfer time from 8 
>hours.

A Unix platform is probably using tar and gzip, which should work just
fine on your end. Unless you need the extra functionality, Info-Zip is
the obvious alternative to gzip. I don't know which of the two is
faster.

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     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
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