Paul Gilmartin wrote:
I largely agree with your "flag". But slippery slope: should it be extended to select among CP1047, CP037, CP500, ... DBCS, ... when iconv is available to do that?
I meant the "flag" was preferable to mangling the functionality of the well-known tool scp. My $0.02: IBM should have left their sticky blue fingers off of the scp code and trained the customers to use iconv. This would have had two benefits: 1. The customer would learn how to use the complete, more useful tool the way the rest of the world uses it. 2. The customer would have had more of a leg up into using standard open source tools and the vendors and IBM gradually leave them to their own resources in the open source world as maintenance and development budgets for legacy record-based systems like z/OS, z/VM and IBM i decline towards stabilization levels. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
