On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 05:29PM, Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing <[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]> wrote:



>WINSTON>type tryit.pl
>use Fcntl;
>$path = "x.;1";
>    sysopen(X, $path, O_WRONLY|O_TRUNC|O_CREAT, 0666)  || die $!;
>printf X "blabla";
>WINSTON>perl tryit.pl
>WINSTON>perl tryit.pl
>file exists at tryit.pl line 3.
>%RMS-E-FEX, file already exists, not superseded
>
>
>So, still no help, but this does seem to be 5.6.1 on VMS (from the prebuilt,
>incidentally) not behaving as documented in this area.

FWIW, I'm pretty sure we just inherit whatever the CRTL does.  Look at the CRTL docs 
for creat() and/or open().

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