My point was that what you see in Linux and CMS are not two different things.. a Linux 'cat' and CMS 'TYPE' are pretty equivalent -- and a packed file looks garbled using either one.
I think Neale had a good idea in making the Linux 'file' command recognize this particular signature so at least Linux knows it is packed and not text format - just as it knows about tar, gzip, etc even without a particular filetype in the name. Scott Rohling On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 7:16 AM, Alan Altmark <alan_altm...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > On Thursday, 05/19/2016 at 08:28 GMT, Scott Rohling > <scott.rohl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If I 'browse' (or TYPE for that matter) a COPYFILE packed file - it > looks > > much the same as it did from the Linux... > > > > That being said - if I was the cms-fuse developer I would probably push > > back on this... just because XEDIT was smart and did the unpack > > internally doesn't mean the driver should try and do the same. Isn't > the > > onus on the application opening the file to read it correctly - just as > it > > is in under CMS? Is cms-fuse supposed to incorporate the unpack? What > > about terse, vmarc, et al? Seems like a slippery slope unless I just > > plain misunderstood you. (never happens :-) > > No, it's not up to the application. In general, YOU are required to > unpack any file you want some application to read. XEDIT is a notable > exception. > > If you install the HSX package from the VM Download Library, it will > unpack (COPYFILE, TERSE, FCOPY) files in real-time, making their use > transparent to the application. It would be nice if cms-fuse could deal > them. Or one of them thar fancy shmancy Linux script thingies ought do be > able to expand the file onto an in-memory disk. > > But if it weren't for the ubiquity of packed files, I probably wouldn't be > all that concerned about it. I just don't like that what you see in CMS > and what you see in Linux are two different things. People not steeped in > CMS file system lore aren't going to grok a packed file, *especially* > since it's not a visible file attribute. (A few times I've thought about > trying to to make it one.) > > I guess I should put a blurb on my web page about the format of a packed > file. > > Alan Altmark > > Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant > Lab Services System z Delivery Practice > IBM Systems & Technology Group > ibm.com/systems/services/labservices > office: 607.429.3323 > mobile; 607.321.7556 > alan_altm...@us.ibm.com > IBM Endicott > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
