[Info-vax] backup oddity

[Eberhard Heuser]

Am 04.01.2015 um 19:34 schrieb Phillip Helbig undress to reply via Info-vax:
> In article <mailman.53.1420393975.17950.info-vax_rbnsn.com at rbnsn.com>,
> Eberhard Heuser <eberhard.heuser at chemie.uni-konstanz.de> writes:
>
>> $ backup [...]*.*;*/exc=([SYSn]syscommon.dir,[SYSn.syscommon...]*.*;*)
>>
>> will do what you expect.
> OK, but why do DIR and BACKUP behave differently here?  And what about
> SET FILE and DELETE and PURGE and SET SECURITY and COPY?  It would be
> nice if all commands processed arguments in the same way (apart from
> having different defaults such as none, ;, ;*).
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That's because backup uses a different way to get the file information.
For instance it is impossible to use backup for nfs-mounted disks (at least
this is true for the Multinet-VMS-package.).

eberhard