The existing vmsify and unifiy routines are doing completely different
translations than what the VMS CRTL is doing, and are also different
than just about any other VMS program that I have seen.
The code appears to pre-date the VMS CRTL providing equivalent routines,
and does not handle logical names or devices correctly at all.
Several of the entries in the conversion table, including
table lines 3, 4, 5, 9-11 have always been incorrect.
Table line 22 is wrong for ODS-5 filenames, and the size of the path
name is out of date. ODS-5 paths can be 4095 ASCII, UCS-2, or 8-bit
binary characters.
What I plan to do is have the routines just call the VMS CRTL conversion
routines, and totally junk the broken code.
There may be some conversions that the CRTL does not cover, like
replacing extra '.' characters to '_', but this should work much better
than the existing code.
Correct VMS to Unix translations are:
foo:bar foo/bar
[.foo]bar.baz foo/bar.baz
foo:[bar.baz]x.y /foo/bar/baz/x.y
node::foo:[dir] //node/foo/dir/
Of course almost nothing currently used knows that //node is a DECNET
address.
Regards,
-John
wb8tyw@qsl.network
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