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

[Steven Schweda]

> 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.

   I still don't understand.  An image BACKUP save set is not
a disk image.  One can create a disk image from any (real or
pseudo) disk.  What special structure is there in a layered
products kit which requires an image BACKUP of anything?  How
would having an image BACKUP of a layered products kit be
more helpful than having a simple Zip ("-V") archive
containing the same stuff, whether or not one wants to make a
disc image of the stuff?

   As I said, I understand that a VMS installation disc is
special, so a disc image of one of those can have value, and
Zip and UnZip can't do everything that BACKUP /IMAGE can do
with the special structure of a VMS system disk.  However, I
(still) see no reason to (double-) package a (non-bootable)
layered products kit this way.  But feel free to (try to)
enlighten me.


   A recent HP Forum discussion suggests that this may not be
the only mystery/defect in the recent Hobbyist kit packaging.

      http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/x/x/m-p/5606535