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

[Steven Schweda]

>    If he unzipped on his VMS system, IIRC, isn't there a -VMS
>    flag to save/restore the correct file structure?

   If "the correct file structure" information is _not_
included in the archive (because "zip -v" (ZIP /VMS) was not
used when it was created), then UnZip can't restore that
(missing) information when it extracts a file.  The best
UnZip can do in this case is offer options like "-a[a]"
(/TEXT) or "-b[b]" (/BINARY) to let the user select (some
of) the attributes of an extracted file.

   If "the correct file structure" information _is_ included
in the archive (because "zip -v" or "ZIP /VMS" was used when
it was created), then UnZip (on a VMS system) will use that
information.  And there is no option in UnZip to prevent
this.  (Strangely, no one seems ever to have requested such
an option.)


   If you look around, then you should be able to find
(incorrect) advice to use "unzip -V" for this, but the "-V"
option in UnZip does something unrelated.  From "unzip -h":

      -V  retain VMS version numbers