On Thu, 24 May 2001, Tim Scott wrote:
> I agree it should match the other platforms.
>
> PS: Thanks for the info - I now know how what the equivalent of '/dev/null'
> is on VMS :)
Hmm, ... odd. I thought that there already was a module in the core to
provide a platform independent null device. I thought that there was a
proposal for File::*.pm to provide "NL:" on VMS, "/dev/null" on Unix,
"NUL" on Windows, etcetera. There's no such module in perl@10176
though. perlport mentions NUL and COM1, COM2 in connections with windows
but does not mention NL: on VMS. It apparently has not been abstracted
out of MakeMaker and low and behold we do not even have a
$self->{DEV_NULL} in MM_VMS.pm:
$ sea DRA3:[PERL.LIB.EXTUTILS]*.* DEV_NULL
******************************
DRA3:[PERL.LIB.EXTUTILS]MM_UNIX.PM;1
$self->{DEV_NULL} ||= "> /dev/null 2>&1";
******************************
DRA3:[PERL.LIB.EXTUTILS]MM_WIN32.PM;1
$self->{'DEV_NULL'} = '> NUL';
How very odd indeed.
Peter Prymmer
