[Info-vax] ZIP SYS$INPUT

[Syltrem]

Hello everyone

Is there a way to have ZIP use SYS$INPUT (or SYS$NET) as input ?

$ zip f.zip sys$input:
        zip warning: name not matched: sys$input:

zip error: Nothing to do! (DGSI_A1:[TREMBLAY.STMEP.HERABKP]F.ZIP;)


What I'm trying to do is backup a disk and zip that while not storing the 
original saveset on disk (I don't have room for it). I want to store the 
compressed version (zip) only.

I cannot tell BACKUP to pipe the thing directly to ZIP, as far as I know
I thought to send the thing through a DECnet task but ZIP will not take 
SYS$NET as input

Any other idea ?

BTW I am on VAX 7.3 so BACKUP /DATA=COMPRESS is not available and probably 
never will.

On IA64/Alpha I have ZIP 2.32 and it doesn't work either. I don't have the 
latest one on VAX but if this (SYS$INPUT) isn't supported in any version, 
who cares...

Merci !
Syltrem
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