Schuh, Richard wrote: > The format that they usually request is COPYFILE (PACK. They > also can handle VMARC PACK which usually compresses to a much > smaller file than does COPYFILE. It appears that you are > trying to teach them a new trick.
The tersed file format is particularly annoying because - unlike virtually all other compression schemes - it has no eyecatcher. You have to go through a heuristic to decide if your file is terse output, and you can't realistically do it by eye. Tony H. Kress, Raymond had written: > The problem is that I attempted to send a tersed dumpload file to the > Linux Group at IBM for problem resolution.