[Info-vax] BACKUP to the null device

[B Hobbs]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> Whu does BACKUP to NL:FOO.BAR give the error %BACKUP-F-INVDEVTYP but to
> NL:FOO.BAR/SAVE_SET work?  If the error is correct in the first case,
> why doesn't it apply in the second, since in both cases the target is a
> file with the same device, directory, name, type and version?

Were you trained by the BOFH?
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.tasteless/msg/dd690c786579a5f1

Links to early BOFH posts:
http://eisner.decus.org/~hobbs_b/BOFH.HTML
Print them out and use as an operations manual ...