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

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Glad to help a little, Gad. I wish that IBM was more specific in the 
help text - the word "archive" is too vague, in my opinion - there are 
so many different archive formats.

*Regards*

*Vern Hamberg*

IBM Champion 2025 <cid:part1.9i0Ba16u.FTIZL3kX@centurylink.net> CAAC 
(COMMON Americas Advisory Council) IBM Influencer 2023

On 3/23/2025 1:41 PM, Gad Miron wrote:
> Thanks Vern
>
> for clearing the issue for me
>
> Gad
>
>
> > 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*
> >
> > IBM Champion 2025<cid:part1.dokVVjHR.X9RPFjYt@centurylink.net> CAAC
> > (COMMON Americas Advisory Council) IBM Influencer 2023
> >
> > On 3/22/2025 6:59 AM, Gad Miron wrote:
> > > Just wondering
> > >
> > > What about CPYFRMARCF  CL CMD?
> > >
> > > Gad