[Info-vax] ZIP SYS$INPUT

[Wilm Boerhout]

Steven Schweda mentioned  on 5-12-2009 21:53:
> Wilm Boerhout wrote:
> 
>> Now my saveset is called "-", how to extract it with a proper VMS name?
> 
>    What's improper about "-" (strictly speaking, "-.")?  It's
> valid even on ODS2.  I'll admit that it's often pretty
> important to remember to say "-." instead of simply "-", but I
> wouldn't call it improper.  Awkward, perhaps, or inconvenient,
> but certainly "proper".

-. is not a valid ODS2 name! _. is, by the way.
> 
>> [...] And "stored"?  [...]
> 
>    Which Zip was that?  There are complications when the
> "archive" is not a file in which one can seek()+tell().  Newer
> versions may do better than older ones.

$ zip -v
Copyright (c) 1990-2008 Info-ZIP - Type 'zip "-L"' for software license.
This is Zip 3.0 (July 5th 2008), by Info-ZIP.

$ unzip -v remote
Get RMS defaults.  getjpi sts = %x00000001.
                Default: deq =      0, mbc =   0, mbf =   0.
Open callback.  ID = 1, deq =  16384, mbc = 127, mbf =   2.
Archive:  SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSMGR]REMOTE.ZIP;1
  Length   Method    Size  Ratio   Date   Time   CRC-32    Name
--------  ------  ------- -----   ----   ----   ------    ----
  1272429  Stored  1272429   0%  01-01-80 00:00  5fd4a4c2  -
--------          -------  ---                            -------
  1272429          1272429   0%                            1 file

$ unzip remote
Archive:  SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSMGR]REMOTE.ZIP;1
[ Cannot create output file - ]
[ %RMS-F-SYN, file specification syntax error ]
[ %NONAME-W-NOMSG, Message number 00000000 ]

$ unzip -v
UnZip 5.52 of 28 February 2005, by Info-ZIP.  Maintained by C. Spieler. 
  Send
bug reports using http://www.info-zip.org/zip-bug.html; see README for 
details.

I'm sure I can get new ones for VAX?

/Wilm