Re: Zip software on the i

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In looking up info on this, I just learned that apparently IBM have 
provided APIs for zipping and unzipping archives - QZipZip and QZipUnzip 
- this came out in 7.1 - there's a service program, QZIPUTIL, that has 
these procedures. The open source zlib library is used in these utilities.

Announcement available at

http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=AN&subtype=CA&htmlfid=897/ENUS211-411&appname=USN

There are options to tailor how the compression is done in tools other 
than jar - jar doesn't give you many options - we use it, as it is 
really easy and available, but I'll start using these new utilities, 
methinks.

Regards
Vern

On 6/2/2018 7:26 PM, jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> For one-off situations, JAR. For most other purposes, UZAEMON's port of ZLib and MiniZip/MiniUnzip usually does it. The one time it didn't, the one that comes with MMAIL solved the problem.