Re: AS400 PKZIP: was: Tape question

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruce,

Nope, there was a tructation problem.  First it only gave you 80bytes,
then 132...and there are still some idiosycracies in it.  I just spoke
with Teal Davis in their tech support (really decent guy, btw) and when
4.01 comes out this year you'll have all the mix and match and record
length problems (theoretically) addressed.

SAVF's have always worked fine...go figure...

Don in DC

On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr. wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don <dr2@cssas400.com>
> To: Richard Jackson <richardjackson@richardjackson.net>
> Cc: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> Date: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 10:54 PM
> Subject: AS400 PKZIP: was: Tape question
> 
> 
> >
> >Richard,
> >
> >be aware that the ASi PKZIP product for the 400 has record length
> >constraints.  It will ZIP a 1000 byte record, but when you unzip it you'll
> >only get I think 128bytes of your record...the remainder ends up in teh
> >bit bucket...  This is a BIG show stopper for alot of folks...
> >
> 
> 
> That's interesting.  Maybe it's something you're doing.  I use it to unzip
> 512 byte records every week.  Works fine.
> 
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>  -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer
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