--- Friedrich Harasleben <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I need to compress a rather big file on the HP3000 and send it to an
> HP-UX box.
> I can do this in the POSIX shell.
> Any idea how I can use compress.hpbin.sys from the CI?
> or pass paramters to the sh so that I can trigger it from a batch
> job?

you can run compress from the ci...very much like you do from within
the shell.  the difference are -- express the file using hfs-notation
and if you need wildcarding, using mpe wildcards rather than '*'.

btw....the posix programs prefer bytestream files rather than
fixed-length files.

btw2....i'm pretty sure the posix programs won't be able to handle a
file larger than 4gb.             hth   - d

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