On Monday 15 June 2009, Kirk Wolf wrote:
> I could be wrong, but I don't believe that zip allows input from
> stdin. If info-zip uses fopen() to open files, then it might be
> possible to read mvs datasets directly as input files.
I've never tried it, but here's a quote from the zip man page:
> zip also accepts a single dash ("-") as the name of a file
> to be compressed, in which case it will read the file from
> standard input, allowing zip to take input from another program.
> For example:
>
> tar cf - . | zip backup -
Cheers,
Bob
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Bob Woodside
Woodsway Consulting, Inc.
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