No reason one could not write a TAR (upper case intentional) that used only 1980's mainframe services. Nothing inherently "UNIX" about the tar format. It's 1's and 0's in; 1's and 0's out.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tony Harminc Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2015 11:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: TAR Files:" Extracting" on a IBM Mainframe On 17 December 2015 at 13:39, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net> wrote: > No TCP/IP? Or is the old Pascal version still supported? No. > Is there a pax or tar equivalent that doesn't require dubbing? I'm not > aware of one. It's not impossible that tar might run without being dubbed. One might be able to copy the tar executable from the UNIX file into a PDSE member and run it from JCL, or more likely by invoking it from a program with suitably UNIXy arguments. But I wouldn't want to bet on it not using some UNIX service. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
