[Info-vax] ZIP SYS$INPUT

[Steven Schweda]

Wilm Boerhout wrote:

> -. is not a valid ODS2 name! _. is, by the way.

   It seems to depend on whose ODS2, and who's asking.  On my
Alpha, for example:

alp $ show device /full dkb200:

Disk ALP$DKB200:, device type SEAGATE ST336607LC, is online, mounted,
file-
    oriented device, shareable, served to cluster via MSCP Server,
error logging
    is enabled.
[...]
  Volume Status:  ODS-2, subject to mount verification, file high-
water marking,
      write-back caching enabled.
  Volume is also mounted on GIMP.

alp $ dire /date /prot /size ALP$DKB200:[sms]-.

Directory ALP$DKB200:[SMS]

-.;1                       1   5-DEC-2009 14:36:25.36  (RWED,RWED,RE,)

Total of 1 file, 1 block.


   Better yet, on VMS VAX V7.3 (clustered with the Alpha):

GIMP $ dire /date /prot /size ALP$DKB200:[sms]-.

Directory ALP$DKB200:[SMS]

-.;1                       1   5-DEC-2009 14:36:25.36  (RWED,RWED,RE,)

Total of 1 file, 1 block.

GIMP $ copy ALP$DKB200:[sms]-. []

GIMP $ dire /date /prot /size -.
%DIRECT-E-OPENIN, error opening -. as input
-RMS-F-SYN, file specification syntax error

but:

GIMP $ dire /date /prot /size []-.

Directory SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSMGR]

-.;1                       1   5-DEC-2009 14:36:25.36
(RWED,RWED,RE,)

Total of 1 file, 1 block.

GIMP $ dire /date /prot /size *-.

Directory SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSMGR]

-.;1                       1   5-DEC-2009 14:36:25.36  (RWED,RWED,RE,)

Total of 1 file, 1 block.

And, of course, back on the Alpha:

alp $ dire /date /prot /size -.

Directory ALP$DKB200:[SMS]

-.;1                       1   5-DEC-2009 14:36:25.36 (RWED,RWED,RE,)

Total of 1 file, 1 block.

Everything's complicated.  Trust no one.


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

   This stuff may not work properly, but building it should be
possible almost anywhere.  This is as far back as I can go:

WIMP $ write sys$output f$getsyi( "version")
V5.4

WIMP $ zip3 -v
Copyright (c) 1990-2008 Info-ZIP - Type 'zip "-L"' for software
license.
This is Zip 3.0 (July 5th 2008), by Info-ZIP.
Currently maintained by E. Gordon.  Please send bug reports to
the authors using the web page at www.info-zip.org; see README for
details.

Latest sources and executables are at ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip,
as of above date; see http://www.info-zip.org/ for other sites.

Compiled with VAX C for VMS (V5.4 VAX) on Nov 28 2009.
[...]

WIMP $ unzip6 -v
UnZip 6.00 of 20 April 2009, by Info-ZIP.  Maintained by C. Spieler.
Send
bug reports using http://www.info-zip.org/zip-bug.html; see README for
details.

Latest sources and executables are at ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/
;
see ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/UnZip.html for other sites.

Compiled with VAX C for VMS (V5.4 VAX) on Nov 23 2009.
[...]

That's VAX C V3.1-051, by the way.


   Back to the actual problem, however.  Supposedly, ZipNote
can be used to change the name of an archive member, but I've
never tried it until now, and it didn't so so well when I did:

alp $ zipnote3l -w BMT_C2_ZN.ZIP
zipnote error: bad file number
zipnote error: Temporary file failure (ALP$DKA0:[SMS.ITRC]
ZI20204E27.;)

   That'll give me something to look into.  Already this is
more fun than I had expected.