Re: Zip software on the i -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Zip software on the i
From: Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:49:18 +0000
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They're somewhat limited. One showstopper for me was the lack of wildcard support. And, it's "one and done". You can't append to or delete from the archive.

Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power

From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2018 10:56 AM
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Subject: Re: Zip software on the i

On 6/20/2018 12:28 PM, Jay Vaughn wrote:

surprised nobody mentioned CPYTOARCF and CPYFRMARCF - both native i
commands that handle .zip files

I had no idea those commands existed.

Thanks!

david

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