Re: Append to IFS File

[Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2019-03-22 12:41 PM, John Yeung wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 11:59 AM Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > CHGATR wouldn't work after using 'cat' since data-loss would have
> > already occurred.
>
> I didn't realize there *was* data loss. I would have thought `cat`
> just faithfully reproduces bytes. (Is that Unix thinking when we
> actually need Unix-style-but-on-IBM-i thinking?)
> ...

'cat' also does CCSID conversion.

I'm not actually sure whether 'cat' would fail if it couldn't convert 
some characters or whether it would put substitution characters for 
unconvertable data.