[Info-vax] ZIP SYS$INPUT

[Bob Koehler]

In article <ZUaSm.64139$Td3.21476 at en-nntp-01.dc1.easynews.com>, "Syltrem" <syltremzulu at videotron.ca> writes:
> 
> Is there a way to have ZIP use SYS$INPUT (or SYS$NET) as input ?

   The standard for zip is that if you don't supply a filename, it
   zips stdin to stdout.  zip here on Eisner says so, too.  So I'd
   try:

   $pipe backup <whatever> sys$output:/save_set | zip > f.zip

   It just worked for me, making a backup of my login.com and storing
   the output in f.zip.