Hi Barry, if you do start to work on gzip, drop me a note. Hunter and I invested some effort to get the current development version of gzip (1.3.5) up to speed and to incorporate the private VMS specific changes (aka 1.2.4b). I will make our current working kit available to you.
Greetings, Martin P.S. And yes, these patches have been submitted to the gzip development mailing list ;-) > From: IN%"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "Craig Berry" 1-OCT-2003 18:12:59.24 > Subj: RE: VMS::Filespec vs. hardcoding in VMS.C in Perl 5.8.1 > > On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 05:34PM, Barry Treahy, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >If I understand (aka guess) properly, at run time the default calls to > >VMS::Filespec are basically being redirected to hardcoded C by way of > >the newXSproto calls, which might explain why my debug statements in > >Filespec.pm are not working. First, is this what is happening? > > [...] > > IIRC, part of the problem with CPAN may be that external utilities also > need additional tweaking. For example, you may need a version of gunzip > that does command-line redirection without help from the pipe command. Dr. Martin P.J. Zinser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Deutsche Boerse Systems Inc. Suite 1580 Tel: +1-312-408-3085 141 West Jackson Blvd. FAX: +1-312-408-3071 Chicago, IL, 60604 USA Private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
