Yes, the OP must use compatible options on both ends, regardless of what archving software he uses. I believe that even with ZIP you can shoot yourself in the foot with the wrong pair of options.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 3:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How to upload 600 files from PC to Mainframe On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 18:53:33 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Build an archive, do a binary transfer of the archive and extract the files. >Use whatever format, e.g., gz, zip, that is supported on both your MVS system >and your PC. > Danger! "pax -zw" on the desktop will probably compress with "gzip/deflate". "pax -zr' on z/OS will insist on LZW (de)compression. Avoid "-z". -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
