[Info-vax] Compressed backup summary information retrieval

[Rich Jordan]

On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 3:55:14 AM UTC-5, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <taoflk$2l9tb$1... at dont-email.me>, Chris Townley
> <ne... at cct-net.co.uk> writes: 
> 
> > I think NLA0: was OK in certain circumstances. Under VMS 6 we used the 
> > following to delete the contents of large directories: 
> > 
> > $ backup/delete/nolog/ignore=nobackup 'P1':*.*;* /excl=.dir nla0:x.x/save
> It's OK if it includes a file spec as well.


Found an ugly but efficient and workable workaround for pulling the info from a compressed saveset using a pipe.  I know a backup command qualifier to display just the summary of a backup saveset has been asked about for decades so not expecting any improvements (and the system I'm working on is still HP VMS for a few more months at least).