On Friday, July 23, 2010, 1:07:41 PM, Kris Buelens wrote:
>I hope that a port will save/restore the file dates. One
>of the reasons I didn't like an old CMS ZIP version was
>that it didn't preserve the file dates.
Kris,
Good to know, and I suspect very easy to solve with either a system()
call or a few quick assembler routines.
The MVS port did the minimal support (and was broken when the z/OS USS
support was added). For MVS files it did not extract the file creation
date from the z/OS catalog (DSCB). It also ignored the PDS ISPF-style
date/time stamps. I intend to fix that (and should be able to
save/restore the entire ISPF stats for each member). The restore will
likely take a small assembler stub.
I'm very interested in having folks with knowledge and opinions follow
the InfoZIP forum topic I've set up. It also lets the main InfoZIP
developers know that VM/CMS users exist.
BTW, I'm looking at building options for tab expansion and insertion.
This is important for folks on MVS because the ISPF editor doesn't
really support the EBCDIC TAB character all that well. I'm not sure
about the state of XEDIT's support. As always, comments and
suggestions are welcome.
Al
