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Uploaded zipped source file for unXmit.

Uploaded PDF and DOCX files containing instructions for how to create (import) unxmit into a new Eclipse project, make changes, test, and publish a new version of unxmit (export).

Changes to Class member unXmitConsole.java method=println. Method no longer uses RCP StatusManager to report messages. Instead println uses traditional print line to disk file logic. ... read more

MacOS/X is generated using Eclipse's cross platform delta pack. Unfortunately, I do not have access to a MacOS/X system. So, I have not done any testing on it. I would love to work with someone who uses OS/X and who is willing to test the OS/X code. Please contact me at dlknappinfo@att.net. Thanks.

V1R1M1 provides corrects drag-and-drop which stopped working in the previous release. It also corrects problem in the default TXT Viewer which only worked for Windows 64-bit. Added DEB and RPM for Linux distributions.

Supports Windows 64bit, Linux 32bit and 64bit, MacOSx is provided as alpha code

V1R0M6 corrects problems extracting PDS/e load library members and displaying them with SeeHex.exe program

Added logic to display load library members in EBCDIC hex dump format.

Corrected error where unxmit failed for XMIT files unloaded from PDS with 16 extents. Added help HTML file

V1R0M1 contains improvements to Profile Tab including changeable fields containing unXmit's logfile and temporary work directory. Also includes tooltips describing fields on Profile Tab

Packaged unxmit and unxmitc using NSIS installer script. Installs unxmit into Program Files (x86) directory. Script also installs JAVA if below required release level.

V0.0.4 removes requirement for International Version of JRE

V0.0.3 includes support for variable-length records. Also fixed problem where fixed-length records greater than 80 were truncated.

Oct 13, 2010 – Added progress bar to monitor the progress of first pass through data

The goal of this software was a teaching exercise for me. This program is my first JAVA program. Additionally, I am not a workstation programmer; my experience is in mainframe programming.

There are three initial objectives for this software:
1.Support for unpacking PDS/E files as well as regular PDS files.

2.Support XMIT files imbedded inside XMIT files.

3.Publish source so that others can contribute features.... read more