[Info-vax] ZIP SYS$INPUT

Steven Schweda sms.antinode at gmail.com
Sat Dec 5 11:01:24 EST 2009


Wilm Boerhout wrote:

> [...]
> $ define /user SYS$INPUT SYS$NET
> $ zip "-Vv" REMOTE.ZIP "-"
>
> but apparently, ZIP was not designed to accomodate this.
> [...]

   That's an understatement.  I haven't actually looked at
what's happening here, but it seems like a safe bet that,
whatever Zip does to get file attributes for "-V", it's
unlikely to work properly for a pipe.  Omitting "-V" may not
help much, but including it seems to me to be hopeless.



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