[Info-vax] STARTREK.BCK Restore - How?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2019-06-12 17:48:14 +0000, Steven Schweda said:

>    I'd be a little cautious on such a claim.  Zip and UnZip can't cope 
> with aliases or hard links.  So far as I know, the official zip archive 
> structure lacks any such features.  But, if all you want is a bunch of 
> plain-old files (or symlinks), and not a BACKUP /IMAGE, then I'd expect 
> the Info-ZIP programs to be adequate.  And, in some ways, superior.

I don't see the point of jacketing a backup saveset into a zip archive 
for the source code of a Star Trek game, or for most any other similar 
application.

Fixing BACKUP to transparently and silently deal with an otherwise 
valid saveset with hosed metadata would be nice, and the trade-offs 
there led to BACKUP /REPAIR.

But then BACKUP is pretty clearly about as far as the current 
implementation and arguably about as far the current design can be 
pushed, too.

Locally?  Use zip and unzip.  Preferably with "-V", when dealing with 
OpenVMS.  Unless there's a specific requirement for BACKUP.  With hope 
for a distro-integrated zip and unzip.


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