[Info-vax] Unexpected error using ZIP for OpenVMS

[Steven Schweda]

> Depending on one's hardware, it might be faster to have the source and
> destination on the same disk or at least on disks with direct
> connections to the same machine (say, a hobbyist system with relatively
> fast controllers and disk but slow ethernet) or on different disks (say,
> where there is a high-speed interconnect so the more distributed the I/O
> the better).

   Yes, some things are faster than others, but if the user
wants the final result in a particular place, then the
program will need to write it out there, whether or not it
writes it someplace else first.  It's not obvious (to me)
that it's ever faster to write the archive once to a
temporary location, then read it back, and write it out to
the final location.  But you can do it if you want.