On Sat, 9 Sep 2023 09:50:06 -0400, william giannelli wrote: >I downloaded the files to my laptop. but they didnt appear as "zipped" file >with the .Z >I tried renaming the file with a ".zip" extension but that made the file >unreadable. > On both MacOS and Linux I extracted a .pax.Z file generated on z/OS with "pax -vvzr <???.pax.Z".
I have a script on Linux that nicely does "-f IBM-1047 -t ISO8859-1" and fixes IBM's dreadful LF<-->NL twiddle. (MacOS doesn't grok EBCDIC.) (UTF-8 might have been better.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN