Re: Perl scripts?

["Patrick Townsend" <patownsend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David,

Yes, if you have a relatively current version of WinZip it can handle the
UNIX  gzip files. Also I believe IBM has ported Gzip to the AS/400. I can't
remember the link but I know its in the area on the AS/400 site where they
put some of the UNIX utilities they port. We have both Gzip and Zip support
in our FTP Manager product, too. Gzip was a pretty straight-forward port.
Zip is much more complicated....

Patrick
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----- Original Message -----
From: David Gibbs <david@midrange.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: Perl scripts?


> At 02:58 AM 11/12/2000, you wrote:
> >What is the ".gz" on the end of the name?  IE., how do I get this to the
> >400.  Is this a *SAVF, which I can just FTP up?  The .gz is confusing
> >me....don't take much.
>
> gz is the suffix added by the unix GZIP compression program.  You might be
> able to use WinZIP to decompress it ... if you can't, try going over to
> http://www.gzip.org for an appropriate executable (hmmm... I just noticed
> they have an AS400 executable, might be worth a try).  The resultant SAVF
> can be uploaded to the 400 via FTP (as usual, use binary mode and create
> the target save file before uploading it).
>
> The maintainers of the CPAN site are unix heads, so they did their
standard
> compression on the file.
>
> >And, David,  thanks for the newsgroup...if I'm going to have to mess with
> >perl, (I never would've believed it)  I'll need all the help I can get.
>
> No problem.
>
> david
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