Error with file compressed with PKZIP on Z/os Mainframe

2012-05-06 Thread Techow, Ric
Hi, Hoping for help with a gzip issue on Solaris 9. We have used gzip to decompress files sourced from a Z/os mainframe which have been compressed with PKZIP for many years. On Z/os there is a PKZIP option to produce a gzip compatible file. E.g. //STEPZIP EXEC PGM=PKZIP,REGION=2048K //STEPLI

Re: Error with file compressed with PKZIP on Z/os Mainframe

2012-05-06 Thread Paul Eggert
On 05/06/2012 09:00 PM, Techow, Ric wrote: gunzip: FLEXCBA00012425_RT.gz: invalid compressed data--length error This occurs when the length field in the .gz file is not equal to the actual length modulo 2**32. Due to a shortcoming in the gzip file format, there's only 32 bits to store t