zip (was: Re: Disk archival techniques)

[Antonio Carlini]

Al Kossow wrote:

> There appears to be very little written down about the variations in 
> the VMS Backup format as well.

I think the last time the format was documented was in
an appendix to one of the VAX/VMS V3 manuals. Not much
has (apparently) changed since then.

You can get backup to spit out a fair amount of info
by adding /ANALYZE to a BACKUP/LIST command.

And the source listings are available.

So the stuff may not be around in an easy-to-program
format, but the info does exist.

Antonio


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