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Rocket is pleased to announce the pre-release of Vim 8.0.22 for z/OS. This port has been in use for a couple of months internally at Rocket by our developers, however we have not had time to run a full QA suite. Thus this is not considered GA quality.

Please go to the Rocket Community Portal for download.

-Peter

For the open source distribution bundles, we use tar with the -UX options, which preserves tags.

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.bpxa500/tar.htm

Do you think tarballs are better than pax.Z files on z/OS? It’s certainly easier to use pax so I don’t have to pipe gzip into tar or run two commands.

Rocket is pleased to announce the pre-release of Vim 8.0.22 for z/OS. This port has been in use for a couple of months internally at Rocket by our developers, however we have not had time to run a full QA suite. Thus this is not considered GA quality.

Please go to the Rocket Community Portal for download.

-Peter

@daveyc Have you tried the -z option on tar instead of piping output to or from gzip?

  -z        Reads or writes, or both reads and writes, the tape archive by
            first passing through a compression algorithm compatible with
            that of compress.

@daveyc Have you tried the -z option on tar instead of piping output to or from gzip?

  -z        Reads or writes, or both reads and writes, the tape archive by
            first passing through a compression algorithm compatible with
            that of compress.

No I haven’t! Thanks for the tip. Is that Rockets tar port or the z/OS tar?

No I haven’t! Thanks for the tip. Is that Rockets tar port or the z/OS tar?

We using the z/OS tar

Rocket is pleased to announce the pre-release of Vim 8.0.22 for z/OS. This port has been in use for a couple of months internally at Rocket by our developers, however we have not had time to run a full QA suite. Thus this is not considered GA quality.

Please go to the Rocket Community Portal for download.

-Peter

@daveyc the IBM provided z/OS tar. Manual: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.bpxa500/tar.htm

@daveyc the IBM provided z/OS tar. Manual: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.bpxa500/tar.htm

Just read that. I’m so used to using pax that I haven’t used tar for ages. Only on Linux systems. If that’s the case then maybe Rocket doco should use the -z option and not suggest using gzip?

Rocket is pleased to announce the pre-release of Vim 8.0.22 for z/OS. This port has been in use for a couple of months internally at Rocket by our developers, however we have not had time to run a full QA suite. Thus this is not considered GA quality.

Please go to the Rocket Community Portal for download.

-Peter

All goodness but I can’t put settings in .vimrc in my user directory without breaking it.

Rocket is pleased to announce the pre-release of Vim 8.0.22 for z/OS. This port has been in use for a couple of months internally at Rocket by our developers, however we have not had time to run a full QA suite. Thus this is not considered GA quality.

Please go to the Rocket Community Portal for download.

-Peter

correct archive vim.tar.gz (258.9 KB)

correct archive vim.tar.gz (258.9 KB)

Thanks @Yaroslav it’s all working well now. This is a great port. We’ve got a few Vim guys here and we’ve been trying stuff out like Vundle. There are some problems but it’s holding together to be more than usable. One nit is that map doesn’t seem to be working.

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