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Re: Compressing files and FTP
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Lars Appel <[log in to unmask]>
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Lars Appel <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:09:33 +0200
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Tony Summers wrote:

> ... but I was hoping that there was some way
>of directly invoking the compressing from our Cobol programs - i.e. some
>sort of system instrinsic call I could make.

The compression routines of zip/unzip (google: InfoZIP) are also
available as library (www.zlib.org) that also builds on MPE/iX. Not
sure, however, if the API is convenient for calling from COBOL or
if a command file or script is easier to use.

Lars.

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