Re: How can I zip a file on the IFS -- MIDRANGE-L

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At 20:47 03/01/2000 , Larry wrote:
>I have a savefile I am placing on my AS/400 IFS each night for shipping to
>another system.  Anyone have any idea how to zip it from the AS/400?  I have
>been doing it manually from my PC but I would like to automate the process.

Have you compared the size of a compressed save with the zipped 
uncompressed save? I haven't looked in quite a while, but it seems to me 
there wasn't much difference. If this is true, you really don't gain 
anything by zipping the save.


Pete Hall
pbhall@execpc.com
http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall
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