At 04:54 PM 4/20/00 -0400, Jordan Henderson wrote:
>From: Dan Sugalski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
>>At 01:04 PM 4/20/00 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> >Hmm this is DEC C version dependent. I'd guess that putting a warning
>> >into the pod for File::Find wouldn't be appropriate and I am not
>> >sure about that for VMS::Filespec. Maybe README.vms or VMS::Filespec?
>>
>>README.Dec_C_RTL_is_fscking_evil?
>
>I agree with Charles Lane that we should make work-arounds for these kinds of
>things in VMS.C (or elsewhere) to support all reasonable DECC versions (for
>reasonable values of reasonable), but perhaps a SPR should be submitted to
>VMS engineering in these kinds of cases.
I think they actually fixed it and it's older versions of the RTL that
exhibit the unpleasant behaviour. I'm all for a workaround, though. Can't
hurt, I expect.
Dan
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