Charles Bailey wrote:
> This remains a problem, I agree. It's actually a bit frustrating because we've
> gone out of our way to include portable ways to do things in the Perl
> distribution, and many of the problems arise because someone didn't take the
> time to use them. As we find better ways to absorb these sorts of one-off
> Unixisms, I'm all for 'em. Failing that, I'm for making the modules more
> portable. In some spots we're stuck (e.g. fork-dependent stuff), so we'll
> have to do things VMSishly in parallel.
with Cwd::cwd(); and the new File::Spec modules that Barry has worked so
hard on being excellent examples of things put into the distribution.
Has anyone had a chance to test Barry's code?
Rhetorical question: If I am on a Mac and want to convert a
C:\Windows\File\Spec.txt to a C:[VMS.FILE]SPEC.TXT how do I do that with
File::Spec? Is it even possible?
Peter Prymmer
