In article <4d1bf072.1000...@gmail.com> you wrote: > On 30/12/2010 8:02 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > > > > You can make a tarball on Windows? With what utility? (Not > > that that would be meaningful to me.) When you list the directory > > of that tarball, are the pathnames truncated or intact? If intact, > > the problem is on the z/OS side (or a compatibility problem). > > > > NFS? Would your admins be delighted? Question applies alike > > whether or not you're the admins. > > > > Hmmm. You could install VirtualBox for free on the PC: > > > > http://www.virtualbox.org/ > > > > (Disclosure: it's my employer's product) > > > > ... and install Ubuntu Linux under VirtualBox, and mount your tree > > and/or tarball as a folder shared between Windows and Ubuntu and > > play with that. > >
> Or you could just install cygwin and get all the nice linux goodies as > native windows apps, including tar. On the higher-level versions of Windows 7 (above Home Premium) you can also download SUA (Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications.) This is the Microsoft version of what was Interix. Microsoft bought the company in 1999. I've been using SUA and before that SFU for many years now and find it pretty much the same as Cygwin. I don't know that tar handles long directory names, but I'd be surprised if it didn't work the same as on a native UNIX system. The base install is done via control panel and then you download utilities separately. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771672.aspx -- Don Poitras - SAS Development - SAS Institute Inc. - SAS Campus Drive sas...@sas.com (919) 531-5637 Cary, NC 27513 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
