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

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