Maybe file naming would be the way to flag the files, perhaps something like PMRnnnnn TERSE.
Regards, Richard Schuh -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Harminc Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 8:56 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Vmdump as a file 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.
