[Info-vax] FTP FYI

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <rpgvdq$bgp$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
<seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes: 

> However...  Updates to BACKUP seem nonsensical longer term, as the 
> current app design is close enough to its performance limits to not 
> matter. 

Is there any reason not to use ZIP?  It not only makes an archive, but 
it is much faster to extract individual files from it, it also does 
compression, and is very portable should one need to transfer files 
between different operating systems.  For a while now it can handle 
large files and/or large archives.

For really large savesets, is there something BACKUP can do but ZIP 
can't?  Is BACKUP faster than ZIP (assuming no compression)?