On Sun, 11 Sep 2016 20:24:58 -0600, Jack J. Woehr wrote:
>
>You'da thunk IBM would have just added a charset translation flag to scp for
>them what wanted it, but no-o-o ...
>
From an ASCII system I somtimes use (some embellishment of):
( cd source && pax -w . ) | ssh MVS "cd target && iconv -f IBM-1047
-t ISO8859-1 | pax -w"
... or the inverse. Cumbersome, but it follows the venerable UNIX tradition
of connecting primitives rather than building every facility into every utility.
I largely agree with your "flag". But slippery slope: should it be extended
to select among CP1047, CP037, CP500, ... DBCS, ... when iconv is
available to do that?
-- gil
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