Re: Easiest way to extract GZIP or .GZ on IFS?

date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 08:42:58 -0500
from: Vern Hamberg via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Easiest way to extract GZIP or .GZ on IFS?

I suspect that this command is limited to PKZIP compression. I tried
running it against a tar.gz file and received a message that the file or
content was not valid for decompression - something like that.

Examples in the command help text are a ZIP file and a JAR file. JAR
files are PKZIP'd archives.

I ran the CPYTOARCF, and the result was a PKZIP'd archive. You can
determine that by looking at the file contents in a text editor, the
first 2 characters are PK. Also look in WRKLNK with CCSID 850.

The archive file was created as CCSID 37, but the contents are ASCII,
that's why I used F15 in WRKLNK display to see the actual content in
CCSID 850. Archives like this are probably processed as non-text, so
CCSID doesn't really matter, especially on other systems.

*Regards*

*Vern Hamberg*

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On 3/22/2025 6:59 AM, Gad Miron wrote:

Just wondering

What about CPYFRMARCF CL CMD?

Gad