On Apr 22, 2006, at 11:59 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote:
Ken Williams wrote:
Hi,
I got a report of some VMS problems in File::Spec, and I put
together this patch relative to 3.17:
http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=18846
Could someone on VMS check it out? Thanks.
I will see if I can find some time tomorrow. I have a long list of
issues with VMS file parsing problems that I am working through.
Can you find a way so that '^.' is not treated as '.'? For a quick
fix, if the ^ character precedes any thing that is a non Alpha-
numeric, then that that character is not treated as a delimiter in
a file specification. Treat '^' in a VMS specification like '\' in
a UNIX style string.
Getting File::Spec to understand that would help a lot.
The main obstacle to me doing stuff like that is that VMS::Filespec
doesn't load on non-VMS machines. I'd say that's perhaps an even
bigger priority, so that the rest of the world can test the VMS stuff
and squash bugs, etc.
-Ken
