[Info-vax] SCP2 and large files

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Wednesday, 12 August 2020 17:43:10 UTC+1, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)  wrote:
> In article <rh03ak$121p$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, Jeremy Begg
> <jeremy at vsm.com.au> writes: 
> 
> > I think where it's going wrong is step 2.  The stat() on the 500GB 
> > saveset takes a very long time (seems to be about 90 minutes), by which 
> > time the Linux end has given up waiting for the transfer to begin.
> 
> Why not do ZIP/VMS/LEVEL=9 on the saveset?

Would you care to, er, expand on that a little bit?

I *think* I know the answer, and it's already been 
hinted at, but maybe a DIR /FULL and/or a DUMP /HEADER 
would add a bit more to the discussion, perhaps.