We use 7-zip to generate our MXG distribution file for ASCII platforms, a zipped source director, and found that by naming the output file extension of .zip instead of .7z, we've never had a reported problem.
Barry Merrilly yours, Herbert W. Barry Merrill, PhD President-Programmer Merrill Consultants MXG Software 10717 Cromwell Drive technical questions: supp...@mxg.com Dallas, TX 75229 http://www.mxg.com admin questions: ad...@mxg.com tel: 214 351 1966 fax: 214 350 3694 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Graeme Gibson Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2016 12:12 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals) It's possible that someone at IBM has assumed that 7-Zip produces .zip files, which it does not. 7-Zip normally uses the file extension, or type, of ".7z", not '.zip". It's unfortunate, but possibly not inadvertant, that the developers of "7-Zip" chose a product name that suggests they *are* related. Because of the confusion, products that do support the industry-standard .zip file architecture have been pressured by their clients to implement support for .7z files. It's clever. I'm reminded of the cuckoo. Cheers all, Graeme <Declaration_Of_Interest> http://www.slikzip.com </Declaration_Of_Interest> On 2016/09/18 7:51 AM, John Laubenheimer wrote: > To me, this is somewhat bad technique on IBM's part. This doesn't seem to > have been documented anywhere, and requiring a 3rd party utility to read the > file is not really a good idea. But, 7-Zip works (and is free)! On 2016/09/18 12:41 PM, John Laubenheimer wrote: > I guess I should have said that I think that this is a mistake on IBM's part, > and not an intentional change. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
