Zipping saved files - Was RE: Getting SaveFile from PC

You're not kidding about zipping a save file.  Usually around 75%   
compress afterwards.

I've Tried PKZip for the 400 but it takes WAY too long to compress stuff.   
 Has anyone had any better luck?  I believe this is the same company that   
makes pkzip for the pc.  Uncompressing isn't so bad, though.
    


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From:  Synapse Communications, Inc.
Sent:  Friday, December 12, 1997 12:26 PM
To:  bvstone
Subject:  RE: Getting SaveFile from PC World to the AS/400 via CA/Win


If you don't want to write a program to get the data from the file to
save file you can also do a SNDNETF to yourself (or QSECOFR if your
user ID is not in directory entries)  and restore using WRKNETF to
the savf, the AS/400 won't care as long as the PF was 528 bytes long.
This how we send out one of our AS/400 products on PC disketts,
Amasing how much you can get on a diskett when you zip a savfile!!

 -- Jim Lowary


> Create a physical file on the 400 with a record length of 528.  Copy   
the
> data from the PC into this file.  Create a save file on the 400.  Write   
a
> program to read from the physical and write to the save file.  Restore.   
    

>  Done.
>
    



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