At 2:08 PM -0500 12/9/05, John E. Malmberg wrote: >Somewhat of a shakeup to the code to remove most of the dependencies on >expecting file specifications to be limited to 256 characters. > >Most references to the nam$ or naml$ structures have been converted to >macros to allow the common source to still be built on VAX and older >Alpha OpenVMS versions.
Thanks, applied as change #2314. > >Long filename support is still dormant. I need to go through the other >core modules to see if any of them would have problems with longer >filenames on VMS. I am pretty sure I will have to do something with the >glob emulation. Yes, Perl_start_glob in doio.c has some VMS-specific code that will need similar attention. It might be better to simply override it with our own version in vms/vms.c since there is hardly any common code with other platforms. >Also there appears to be a constant in Perl.h which may need adjusting. > Which one? -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
