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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-05-20 17:19:27 +0000, Jeffrey H. Coffield said:

> Some other posts suggested using zip but I believe zip has an  upper 
> limit of ~2GB.

zip 3.0 and later and unzip 6.0 and later—which have been available for 
a ~dozen years—have no such limits.

Now-archaic versions of zip and unzip do have addressing limits, and 
those older versions can and do have other issues too.

zip "-V" (with the quotes, if extended parsing is not enabled) is the 
easiest way to shovel around app files and data these days, and 
particularly if working in heterogeneous networks.

If archiving OpenVMS apps and data, zip "-V" is also locally preferable 
to BACKUP. Easier to access those archives from arbitrary systems than 
to unpack a saveset—and yes, I know about vmsbackup.




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