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Larry, from command PKZ231410/PKZIP . . . .parameter FILETYPE( ) Type of file . . . . . . . . . . *CALC *TEXT, *BINARY, *EBCDIC, *CALC Help Specifies whether the files selected are treated as text or binary data. For text files added to an archive, trailing spaces in each line are removed, the text is converted to ASCII by default and a carriage return and line feed (CR/LF) are added to each line before the data is compressed into the archive. Binary files are not converted at all. PKZIP has tables optimised for textual or binary data, so for the best compression results specify this option appropriately. Refer to the XLATETAB keyword for details on how to specify a special translate table for use with text data. Use of text file options is usually faster because PKZIP has to process less data than with *BINARY. If the file is a Save File then it will be processed as such, no matter what option is specified here. The possible values are: *CALC PKZIP will do a statistical analysis of the data to determine if it is TEXT or BINARY. If the file is very small then PKZIP may get it wrong - but normally it gets it right. This is the default. *BINARY No conversion is to be performed. *TEXT CR/LF appending and character translation to ASCII is performed. *EBCDIC The file is opened and processed as a text file, but no translation is performed. This option is faster than *TEXT but only use it for archives which are not to be transferred to another platform. So. . . .CPYTOIMPF (DB-DB) to get flat file. . . . .PKZIP to compress and xlate. . . .FTP Binary to send _______________________________________________________________ Regards, Rod Orr >>>>>>>. I guess I am not making my self understood. We FTP a zipped file therefore not translation can talk place. The sole purpose is to reduce the amount of time transfering the data because the files being FTPd are very big. Last nights file was 976MB unzipped. We did the CPYTOSTMF but that takes a lot of time. I want to be able to translate the PF back and forth from ASCII to EBCDIC etc. This would eliminate the timely CPYTOSTMF. The zipping would eliminate the costly transfer by FTP. Larry <<<<<<<< +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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