RE: Perl_cando(), rooted logicals, and volume labels

[Craig A. Berry]

At 12:44 AM -0500 3/22/00, Carl Friedberg wrote:
>Craig, perhaps "misconfigured" is too strong a word, but it is an issue
>which should be addressed. I believe this happened due to a Backup screwup
>(Andy? screwup?), where the vms$common.dir;1 directory name got swapped out,
>and syscommon.dir;1 got put into the IDENT area of the file header in its
>place. This is wrong; the correct file name is vms$common.dir;1.

OK, I think I'm with you now, Carl.  The header dump on our system disk reveals:

Identification area
    File name:                            SYSCOMMON.DIR;1

so I guess that explains why lib$get_fid_to_name returns SYSCOMMON rather than 
VMS$COMMON.  Hmm.  While it's appropriate to say to people "fix your disk," if this is 
a very common problem it would certainly be nice for Perl to work in any case, but 
that may not be possible.

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