[Info-vax] BACKUP to the null device

[AEF]

On Feb 9, 1:08 pm, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
> In article <60590914-65b1-4990-a57c-fb8143f8a... at g11g2000vbq.googlegroups.com>, AEF <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> writes:
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> > But what fails with BACKUP works fine with COPY:
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>    BACKUP is not COPY.

That was exactly my point.

Michael (whom I responded to) said null doesn't make sense for copying
to since you cannot make directories on it. But you "can" with COPY,
as my demo which you snipped off demonstrates. IOW, his reasoning
about why it doesn't work with BACKUP doesn't apply to COPY. So there
must be another reason it doesn't work with BACKUP.

AEF