RE: QSH JAR Command Limit

Charlie,

The jar command isn't the problem, QSH is.

The QSh shell expands the *.* into a list of files before invoking the
jar command.  (That's why you're getting a message from QSH and not
JAR).



Try:

"jar cfM /tempdir/pdsimages.zip -C /stmimagp ."

Without the quotes of course, but the period is important.

Note: I think you'll need the tempdir that way your jar file doesn't get
zipped up into itself.

Taken from the following:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/tooldocs/windows/jar.html

-C  dir
    Temporarily changes directories (cd dir) during execution of the jar
command while processing the following inputfiles argument. Its
operation is intended to be similar to the -C option of the UNIX tar
utility. For example:

        jar uf foo.jar -C classes . 

    would change to the classes directory and add to foo.jar all files
within the classes directory (without creating a classes directory in
the jar file), <snip>


HTH,


Charles Wilt
--
iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
  

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charlie Randall
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 11:46 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: QSH JAR Command Limit

I have a process set up to compress files in the IFS in order 
to FTP to
an external company.  This process currently runs 12 times a 
month.  We
are changing the process to only run once a month (which is a better
overall solution).  The only problem is in preliminary 
testing, the JAR
command used to compress the files now returns the following message
when attempting to compress the files.

$
jar cfM /stmimagp/pdsimages.zip/ stmimagp/*.*
qsh: 001-0085 Too many arguments specified on command.
$

The folder contains 95000+ files to compress.  Any thoughts 
on how I can
bypass this limitation?  Does anybody know what the JAR command object
limit is?

Charlie Randall
AAA Cooper Transportation


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