At 1:13 AM +0100 3/4/05, Abe Timmerman wrote:
>Is there a way to make the CPAN module work on this VAX OpenVMS-V7.2?
>
>I've hacked the Config.pm and fiddled with CPAN.pm, but I get lost in the
>trail...
>The first problem seems to be the local-filenames with multiple dots.

I've never used it because the effort to get it ported was always a
bit more effort than just manually installing whatever extension I
was interested in.  It would be very nice to have working.  Chuck
Lane did get a version working some years ago:

http://www.crinoid.com/perl560.htmlx

He also wrote the VMS::FileUtils module to handle the multiple dot
issue you are encountering:

http://search.cpan.org/~clane/VMS-FileUtils_0.014/

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