Is there any way to turn off the period to underscore translation in the VMSIFY routine?
I am using the HP kit of Perl 5.8.6 and as the following example shows, a period in a directory name is being converted to an underscore. use VMS::Filespec; $udir1 = '../dir1/dir.period/file'; $udir2 = '../dir1/dir^.period/file'; $vdir1 = vmsify($udir1); $vdir2 = vmsify($udir2); printf "$vdir1\n$vdir2"; $ perl test.pl [-.dir1.dir_period]file [-.dir1.dir^_period]file Even when the exta period is escaped it gets translated to an underscore. This happens if I invoke VMSIFY directly and also happens behind the scenes (the Unix filespec is being passed to the copy function in the program where I discovered this issue). Is there any way to turn this off or am I going to have to modify code? Also, it would appear that the Perl version of vmsify is not the same as the C version (e.g. there is no underscore translation in the Perl version). Is this a known issue? Mark Berryman
