[Info-vax] ZIP SYS$INPUT

[Bob Koehler]

In article <00065fae$0$2216$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> Syltrem wrote:
> 
>> $pipe backup f.lis sys$output:/save_set | zip > f.zip
>> Are you sure it really worked ?
> 
> 
> Wouldn't you need the "-" at the end to tell ZIP to read from stdin ?

   No.  The default for zip in this case is from stdin to stdout.  The
   problem lies elsewhere.