On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 09:53:15AM -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote: > Ken Williams wrote: > > > > Extended characters in pathnames: The traditional VMS mode ... > [0..9],[A..Z],[-$_]
I'm admittedly a few decades past the peak of my expertise in VMS, but shouldn't the ";" preceding a file's "version number" be listed in that set also? -Tim *--------------------------------------------------------------------------* | Tim Maher, PhD (206) 781-UNIX (866) DOC-PERL (866) DOC-UNIX | | tim(AT)Consultix-Inc.Com http://TeachMePerl.Com http://TeachMeUnix.Com | *+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-* | Watch for my Fall, 2005 book: "Minimal Perl for UNIX/Linux People" | | See http://minimalperl.com for details, ordering, and email-list signup | *--------------------------------------------------------------------------*