[Info-vax] scp or sftp: file is "raw", needs to be parsed - possible to work around that?

[Chris Townley]

On 19/05/2021 16:35, Grant Taylor wrote:
> Drive by question:
> 
> On 5/19/21 6:53 AM, Chris Townley wrote:
>> The benefit of using ZIP is so much the compression, but retaining VMS 
>> attributes in a known format,
> 
> Does this mean that the zip file is functioning more as a container than 
> as compression?  Wherein the container is used to hold VMS attributes 
> /internally/, thus isolating them from any / all /external/ interference 
> / analysis?
> 
> 
> 
Not 100% sure, but it does preserve VMS attributes (as long as you zip 
up using "-V"

I used it before on a lightly loaded Itanium cluster, so using even a 
high compression wasn't a problem. On the old development microvax, I 
used minimum, or no compression.

Also if being copied over unchecked FTP, ZIP would complain if the file 
got corrupted.

Even with a password, it is not secure from prying eyes!


-- 
Chris Townley