"John E. Malmberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/22/2005 12:53:06 AM:
> VMS has a number of features that vary with the version of VMS, and also > features that can be enabled. > > Perl scripts running on VMS may need to know what features are enabled, > or to enable the features. > > It appears to me that the vmsish module is the place to put these if I > can figure out how to get them all implemented. Much (not all) of this information sounds like it might do better to reside in a non pragmatic module with a name like VMS::Config or VMS::FeatureSet; rather than the pragmatic module intended to alter run time behavior of a script and its loaded modules. By the way, one often requested feature is to get a VMS exit 0 (that is $STATUS = 0 and $SEVERITY = 0), which the C exit and/or return statements do not support, but an XS module that does: #include <starlet.h> sys$exit(0); could support, given appropriate hooks into perl's main(). I personally do not feel any need for obtaining $STATUS 0, but some folks do. How about putting together a trial VMS::<whatever> extension to implement trials of your proposals so that folks can try it out from CPAN? Peter Prymmer
