[Info-vax] how to extract and install content from vms073lp.zip

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

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<3e70f5b1-313f-4945-861e-ee2644c33e58 at s7g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
Steven Schweda <sms.antinode at gmail.com> writes: 

>    I still haven't looked at the modern Hobbyist kits, so I
> know nothing.  Did someone really Zip-compress a (big) BACKUP
> save set instead of simply using Zip on the original files?
> Why?

For archiving, ZIPping several files is preferable to BACKUP then 
ZIPping the backup saveset.  However, if the saveset is an image backup, 
then this would make sense, i.e. one could use it to create a disk 
image.