[Info-vax] ZIP, UNZIP and BACKUP/COMPARE reporting %BACKUP-E-VERIFYERR

[Steven Schweda]

Volker Halle wrote:
> Thanks for the lecture.

   Glad to do it.  Abusing the victims is the best part of
software development, I always say.

> Now referring to this may actually help me convince EMC to fix this
> problem in Networker Client for OpenVMS V7.3.4.

   Good luck.  As I recall, there's one spot in UnZip where an
odd-length buffer now gets an extra zero byte because the
write operation always does an even number of bytes, while in
some older version you tended to get some left-over byte.
This helps BACKUP /COMPARE a little, but as I recall (again),
VAX object files often have more than one byte of non-zero
junk at the end, so they tend to miscompare much of the time.
Everything's complicated.  I'm not holding my breath, waiting
on the fix for that one.