The short URL I posted seems broken. Try this https://shorturl.at/fuCQV

On Thu, 2022-03-10 at 18:38 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2022 07:57:40 +0800, David Crayford wrote:
> 
> > Massimo is correct. Ported tools are now installed using miniconda.
> > See this thread for details which includes links to documentation
> > and videos shorturl.at/gAC39
> > 
> IIRC, many years ago I compiled gzip from open source
> with little difficulty.
> 
> Does the Ported Tool use the hardware acceleration when available?

Yes.

> 
> I find it ironic that z15 provides (optional?) hardware acceleration
> for DEFLATE (gzip) rather than TERSE, which is otherwise IBM's
> preferred compression format.

I don't find it ironic. IBM want to modernize the mainframe not stick
to old proprietry formats that nobody else uses. Java is a huge user of
zip. SMF logstreams are compressed using zlib format.

> 
> What does "pax -z" use, now and in the future?
> 

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