🚀 go-pugleaf

hi,
i have a few vm utility questions, but i will post them seperately,
to avoid confusion with subject lines.
here is the first ;-)

i recently asked here (or on VMESA-L?) about transferring
a *large* file (10-20Mb) from PC to mainframe, on a regular
basis. TCP/IP and FTP were found to be too expensive, but
there were those who suggested zipping the data first, before
doing the file xfer.

we are trying that method, and unzipping on VM with ARCUTIL.
i have ARCUTIL version 2.0.4 , i dont really remember where
i got it, but it works very nicely. :-)

i use ARCUTIL unzip <infile> <outfile> ( EBCDIC
which does A2E translation, and deblocking to records.

the problem:

our PC data includes hebrew, represented by 8-bit ASCII
codes. unfortunately, when ARCUTIL unzips/translates,
all these codes are converted to blanks in the cms output
file.

1. is my version of ARCUTIL outdated, and should it be
    upgraded (and if so, how, and where do i get it?)

2. is there some way to add to or change its A2E xlate table?

3. does anyone have any other suggestions? :-)

thank you,
shimon
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Shimon Lebowitz
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