What do folks here think of an addition to perlrun.pod such as this?:
$ gdiff -u [.pod]perlrun.pod;1 [.pod]perlrun.pod
--- [.pod]perlrun.pod;1 Mon Mar 13 21:25:37 2000
+++ [.pod]perlrun.pod Thu Mar 30 17:36:57 2000
@@ -809,6 +809,17 @@
this controls the behavior of global destruction of objects and other
references.
+=item PERL_ROOT (specific to the VMS port)
+
+A translation concealed rooted logical name that contains perl and the
+logical device for the @INC path on VMS only. Other logical names that
+affect perl on VMS include PERLSHR, PERL_ENV_TABLES, and
+SYS$TIMEZONE_DIFFERENTIAL but are optional and discussed further in
+the F<README.vms> and L<perlvms> documents.
+
+=item SYS$LOGIN (specific to the VMS port)
+
+Used if chdir has no argument and HOME and LOGDIR are not set.
+
=back
Perl also has environment variables that control how Perl handles data
End of possible patch proposal.
Peter Prymmer
