On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:14:51 -0600, Charles Mills wrote: >I think the problem is that the option is confusingly named. The question is >"should IND$FILE translate the data from ASCII to EBCDIC? Yes or No." The word >"binary" implies data that might well contain all 256 possible 8-bit values. > .... > I might argue that a transfer should be performed as a image, verbatim, with no loss of information, leaving it to the recipient to apply any desired filters after the fact.
*but* what does it mean to transfer to the desktop as such a verbatim image a mainframe RECFM=VB file containing RDWs but binary data? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
