> On Nov 27, 2016, at 4:53 PM, Edward Gould <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> —————————SNIP------------------------- >>> IBM blundered with the 'scp' command on z/OS and made it automatically and >>> uncontrollably convert text. >>> >>> scp is universally outside z/OS a binary transfer protocol which knows >>> nothing whatsoever of the content it transfers. >>> >>> z/OS users are forced onto the inferior sftp which in the Unix world is >>> merely an scp-knockoff nod to decades of >>> scripting ftp. >>> >> Have I ever mentioned that I hate EBCDIC!? >> http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM <http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM> >> <http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM <http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM>> > > which came first the chicken or the egg? >> >> IBM blundered by making UNIX System Services based on EBCDIC rather than >> ASCII. >> It might yet be made impartially bimodal but until then customers will >> suffer.
If you don’t like EBCDIC go play in the ASCII world. >> >> On occasion, I've resorted to such as: >> ssh user$zOS "cd somewhere && pax -w . | iconv -f ISO8859-1 -t >> IBM-1047" | pax -rv >> >> And I think once again of Samuel Johnson's politically inorrect dog. >> >> -- gil >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> with > the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
