One thing to consider (again from PERLVMS):

PERL_ENV_TABLES is translated once when Perl starts up; any changes you make 
while Perl is running do not affect the behavior of %ENV . 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John E. Malmberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 11:28 AM
> To: vmsperl@perl.org; Craig A. Berry; Michael G Schwern; Tom Edelson
> Subject: RE: feedback on VMS changes
> 
> > E-mail sent offline quoting, and pointing him to, the %ENV 
>> section of PERLVMS.

> Based on this information, if the Perl features work as 
> documented, most 
> of what Makemaker has to do on VMS to eliminate the macro expansion 
> hacks that is to change the logical name PERL_ENV_TABLES for while 
> Makemaker is running so that the environment variables are put in 
> CLISYM_GLOBAL or CLISYM_LOCAL.

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