Re: SAVF from V5R3 to V4R5

[Mark Phippard <MarkP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 03/28/2005 04:42:37 PM:

> > Kirk Goins wrote:
> > V5R3 will only create compatible files back to V5R1.
> 
> 
> Even so, if done properly, he could still FTP the save file to the V4R5 
> system into a 528-byte record physical file, and then FTP it back to the 

> V5R3 system into a save file, since the save file is essentially a 
special 
> kind of physical file that has 528-byte records.

Why not just FTP the save file to a stream file on any system he chooses? 
It can always be FTP'd back, and it could even then be zipped which 
usually yields pretty good compression for save files.

Mark


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