[Info-vax] Unexpected error using ZIP for OpenVMS

[AEF]

On Dec 28, 9:04 pm, AEF <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Dec 28, 1:30 am, Steven Schweda <sms.antin... at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> Oh, another limit: VMS backup block sizes, and two different ones: one
> on tape and a smaller one on disk! 65535 and 32767. This led Carl
> Lydick to always warn people not to use block sizes higher than what
> could be on disk so that copying a save set to disk wouldn't break it.
> And if you exceed the limits you should expect problems!
>

Actually I believe the limit on disk is effectively 32256.

Sorry for the goof.

AEF