At 08:45 AM 1/15/2008, you wrote:
Kris,
We need to go the other way too. i.e. Uncompress a file on z/VM
that was sent from windows or another platform in PKZIP format.
Have you tried compiling the Info-Zip source? If I remember
correctly, we did this (about ten years ago) without much difficulty.
I thought I'd stuffed that away somewhere, but haven't been able to
lay my hands on it.
There were a few mainframe idiosyncrasies. On the way out, we first
translated to ASCII, then converted the END-OF-RECORD condition to a
CRLF, then zipped it. On the in, we had to do the opposite.
We abandoned this upon deciding that mainframe cycles were too
expensive for the application. We replaced it with a program which
opened a TCP Stream socket to a channel-attached RS/6000, which
passed the stream into ZIP.
It's been more than five years since that client had a mainframe, but ...
Bob Shair
Open Systems Consulting
Champaign, Illinois
