[Info-vax] Some questions on software for VMS 7.3 VAX

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-01-25 20:07:24 +0000, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk said:

> Users of "modern" OSes still might recognise this problem (what's in 
> the saveset, where to put it in the output area) from restoring files 
> from a tarball. Or even from restoring files from a zip file.

Users of "modern" operating systems and "modern" platforms might not 
recognize this problem — the need to deal with this morass is becoming 
rather less common.    Most folks either have the necessary packages 
built into the platform — more than a few choices for operating systems 
do have one or more competent relational database and emacs and vim and 
other tools either baked into the platform — or they install pre-built 
kits, or — for some of the more advanced folks — they use recipes or 
formulas to install the packages.   http://brew.sh or such.   Yes, 
there are developers that do still have to deal with various archive 
formats.   But it's (thankfully) becoming far less common.



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