Re: batch-capable zip OS/400 freeware

[Evan Harris <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Martin

I fooled around with this command quite a bit on and off for a few days - I
was unable to ever figure out the secret of retrieving multi-member files
once they were jarred; I seem to remember that whenever I was extracting
them I got an "unable to create directory" message.

After some thought I concluded that this (maybe) made a certain kind of
sense as I was creating them into QSYS.LIB which is hardly a generic file
system.

However, your email prompted me to ask if you (or anyone else) had ever
managed to solve this problem. I dropped my plans to use this more widely
as it seemed an incomplete solution at least from an AS/400 perspective.

Regards
Evan Harris

>Does QSH CMD('jar -cfM myzip.zip file1 file2 file3') not do the trick for
>you? I use it in batch to create zip files of reports for email
>distribution to Windows users, and it works fine. Start a QShell session
>and just type  jar  to get the list of the options & syntax.
>
>Regards, Martin