[PATCH] fix link rot in README.vms

2001-10-10 Thread Craig A. Berry
Broken links that I couldn't find replacements for have just been deleted. If anyone knows current locations for these, please let me know or just send in another patch. --- README.vms;-0 Wed Sep 5 22:59:57 2001 +++ README.vms Wed Oct 10 17:09:43 2001 @@ -92,8 +92,7 @@ from Compaq.

[PATCH Perl@12307] sigaction test

2001-10-10 Thread Charles Lane
Sending this just to vmsperl, because I think this needs a bit of review first. Comments, please! Perl's signal handling fails pretty badly for me on VMS 6.2you tell the CRTL that you want to ignore SIGHUP, but when you do a "kill SIGHUP,$$" it still blows away your program. I tried this in

Re: [PATCH Perl@12307] kill_perl test, VMS casing tweak

2001-10-10 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 05:19:55PM -0400, Charles Lane wrote: > VMS needs quotes around the -I option to keep it from being downcased. Thanks, applied. -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen

[PATCH Perl@12307] kill_perl test, VMS casing tweak

2001-10-10 Thread Charles Lane
VMS needs quotes around the -I option to keep it from being downcased. diff -uBb t/run/kill_perl.t-orig t/run/kill_perl.t --- t/run/kill_perl.t-orig Wed Oct 10 17:16:02 2001 +++ t/run/kill_perl.t Wed Oct 10 16:16:53 2001 @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ $results = `$^X -I::lib -MMac::err=unix $sw

Re: Error handling on magic open into Ghostscript

2001-10-10 Thread lane
"Forrest Cahoon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have been piping postscript into Ghostscript using a magic open. > This works great when there are no postscript errors, but now I want > to be able to detect when something bad happens, so I can do an > appropriate cleanup. > > The behavior of Gh

Error handling on magic open into Ghostscript

2001-10-10 Thread Forrest Cahoon
Hey, VMS Perl folks! I'm back with another problem for you. I have been piping postscript into Ghostscript using a magic open. This works great when there are no postscript errors, but now I want to be able to detect when something bad happens, so I can do an appropriate cleanup. The behavior o

Re: [PATCH Perl@12307] File::Spec::VMS, again

2001-10-10 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 12:53:02PM -0400, Charles Lane wrote: > Encountered in the [.lib]extutils.t test when using a rooted directory. > > $ perl "-MFile::Spec" -e"print File::Spec->rel2abs('d:[a.b.][00.c]zip');" > d:[a.b.00.c]zip > > Not exactly what one wants...fixed by reordering the

[PATCH Perl@12307] File::Spec::VMS, again

2001-10-10 Thread Charles Lane
Encountered in the [.lib]extutils.t test when using a rooted directory. $ perl "-MFile::Spec" -e"print File::Spec->rel2abs('d:[a.b.][00.c]zip');" d:[a.b.00.c]zip Not exactly what one wants...fixed by reordering the elimination of 00 in the canonpath logic. diff -uBb lib/File/Spec/VM

drop from list

2001-10-10 Thread James Hanks
I no longer user mvs and need to be dropped from the perl list. I need to join a unix perl list instead.     Jim Hanks - ICS240-5071

Re: [PATCH Perl@12307] ExtUtils::Manifest test on VMS

2001-10-10 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 08:42:31AM -0400, Charles Lane wrote: > VMS-specific fixes to the ExtUtils::Manifest tests. > > o VMS is case-insensitive, RTL downcases filenames read by perl... so > need to re-upcase filenames like MANIFEST and MANIFEST.SKIP > > o Need to convert VMS-style t

[PATCH Perl@12307] ExtUtils::Manifest test on VMS

2001-10-10 Thread Charles Lane
VMS-specific fixes to the ExtUtils::Manifest tests. o VMS is case-insensitive, RTL downcases filenames read by perl... so need to re-upcase filenames like MANIFEST and MANIFEST.SKIP o Need to convert VMS-style to Unix-style filenames when comparing names in MANIFEST to names in f