On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 21:49:33 +0200, Binyamin Dissen wrote: > >The issue was legal, and FTP is blocked (don't ask me why .....) - I could >connect, but any action would drop the connection (even in passive mode) > >But the idea of Unix tools was good. They had bash, so I converted it into a >TAR and was able to user wc3270 file transfer. Now hoping that I can undo >(which requires an increase in USS space) > Good. My Windows knowledge is rudimentary. What tool creates a TAR archive? I don't see it as a WinZip option.
See: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.bpxa500/r4paxsh.htm You should be able to verify it with: pax -v <transferred.tar for EBCDIC conversion: pax -vr -ofrom=ISO8859-1,to=IBM-1047 <transferred.tar (Let it run until zFS space is exhausted and delete all but a few files. Inspect the rest, or interrupt it early.) I've used the following to strip the pesky carriage returns. The "^M" must be an actual '0D'X: #! /bin/sh # DOS text to UNIX -- convert <CR><LF> to <LF> exec sed -e 's/^M$//' "$@" Transfer to PDS (if necessary) with OGETX. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
