Downloading NetRexx to MVS/OE

I'm confused about the whole ascii/ebcdic thing.  I downloaded
NetRexx from the web to MVS as a compressed tar file.  I used the
OPUT command to copy it into an HFS then uncompressed and un-tarred
it.  The resulting files are ascii files and they don't work in OE.
How can I change them to ebcdic?  If I use CONVERT on OPUT the file
becomes corrupted and can't be uncompressed.   Am I missing something
very simple here or is this a real problem?

Sylvia Gorman
Northern Illinois University
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[Thom Scrutchin]

Obviously, OS/390 is not an important platform from a NetRexx point of
view.
If it were an important platform, there would be a download that installed
on OS/390 without the nonsense of determining which files were in ASCII and
which ones were not.

When Mike gave me the response about how to find the ASCII files by looking
for the files that did not have binary zeroes in them(or some such), I just
put NetRexx on the back burner.  I was literally speechless.  I figured
that anyone who could respond the way he did was so out of touch with users
like me that it was not worth commenting further.  I am obviously not the
intended user.

I really did not want to gain a deep understanding of packaging and
directory structures and file formats, I just wanted to say INSTALL and
have the right thing happen on IBM's premier operating system.  Then I
wanted to write programs in NetRexx.  Perhaps later.  Or maybe one day the
NetRexx group will want OS/390 users.

-Thom Scrutchin

-----Original Message-----
From: Sylvia Gorman ([hidden email]) [SMTP:[hidden email]]
Sent: Friday, June 05, 1998 12:27 PM
To: NetRexx discussion list
Subject: Downloading NetRexx to MVS/OE

I'm confused about the whole ascii/ebcdic thing.  I downloaded
NetRexx from the web to MVS as a compressed tar file.  I used the
OPUT command to copy it into an HFS then uncompressed and un-tarred
it.  The resulting files are ascii files and they don't work in OE.
How can I change them to ebcdic?  If I use CONVERT on OPUT the file
becomes corrupted and can't be uncompressed.   Am I missing something
very simple here or is this a real problem?

Sylvia Gorman
Northern Illinois University
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[Mike Cowlishaw-2]

The NetRexx package is identical for all operating systems; that seems to me to
be a useful guarantee of consistency and compatibility across different
systems.

I'm not familiar with the tools available on OS./390 nowadays, but I was told
that UNZIP for the OS/390 platform 'does the right thing'.   If that's not so,
please let me know and I'll see if something can be worked out.

All the files in the package except ZIP files are text files.

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