[Info-vax] ZIP SYS$INPUT

[Syltrem]

"Wilm Boerhout" <w6.boerhout at planet.nl> a écrit dans le message de news: 
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> Syltrem mentioned  on 7-12-2009 21:06:
>> "Bob Koehler" <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote in message 
>> news:Y92qoN7t9DQ8 at eisner.encompasserve.org...
>>> In article <ZUaSm.64139$Td3.21476 at en-nntp-01.dc1.easynews.com>, 
>>> "Syltrem" <syltremzulu at videotron.ca> writes:
>>>> Hello everyone
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to have ZIP use SYS$INPUT (or SYS$NET) as input ?
>>>>
>>>> $ zip f.zip sys$input:
>>>>         zip warning: name not matched: sys$input:
>>>>
>>>> zip error: Nothing to do! (DGSI_A1:[TREMBLAY.STMEP.HERABKP]F.ZIP;)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What I'm trying to do is backup a disk and zip that while not storing 
>>>> the
>>>> original saveset on disk (I don't have room for it). I want to store 
>>>> the
>>>> compressed version (zip) only.
>>>>
>>>> I cannot tell BACKUP to pipe the thing directly to ZIP, as far as I 
>>>> know
>>>> I thought to send the thing through a DECnet task but ZIP will not take
>>>> SYS$NET as input
>>>   I've had partial success getting BACKUP to store a saveset to a
>>>   mailbox device, but it seems the blocksize is not trivial (first
>>>   tried matching the default /blocksize to the mailbox size).
>>>
>>>   Getting data from a mailbox into zip is something that would probably
>>>   be trivial, maybe I'll find time to look into it on my home cluster.
>>>
>>>   I forget which version of VMS you had, should I assume you don't
>>>   have create/mailbox?
>>>
>>
>> A mailbox is a good idea.
>>
>> I have VMS VAX 7.3
>> No CREATE/MAILBOX
>>
>> I can create a mailbox from DCL (process termination mailbox) and that 
>> makes a mailbox like this :
>>
>> $ sh dev/fu MY_MBX
>>
>> Device MBA18244:, device type local memory mailbox, is online, 
>> record-oriented
>>     device, shareable, mailbox device.
>>
>>     Error count                    0    Operations completed 4
>>     Owner process                 ""    Owner UIC [TREMBLAY]
>>     Owner process ID        00000000    Dev Prot S,O:RWPL,G,W
>>     Reference count                1    Default buffer size 256
>>
>> $
>>
>>
>> Otherwise it can be created by a Basic program.
>>
>> Before spending time on this (although it's fun) I'd still like to see 
>> whether I can do it with the DECnet task. Currently using "-" in zip 
>> doesn't work for me... (see previous post)
>
> I think "-" works for you in the sense that it tries to process whatever 
> it is given as SYS$INPUT / SYS$NET, but then barfs on what it finds there. 
> Try /BLOCK=2048 to make your setup more like mine. This also worked with 
> ZIP 3.0, the resulting archive had a saveset of sorts in it, but it turned 
> out to be corrupt.
>
> /Wilm

I tried to change that to
$ backup *.mst HERA"operateur kverynice4"::"task=herabkpzip"/block=2048/save
and it still fails with the same error

zip error: Internal logic error (fstat(stdin))

Hopeless ?

Syltrem