The following patch to 5.6.0 adds mention of several important VMS specific environment variables to perlrun.pod in the list in which several generic and win32 specific env vars were also listed. This patch was discussed on the vmsperl list where the possibility of putting this info elsewhere was discussed then finally dismissed. (See discussion from: http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/vmsperl/2000-03/msg00408.html onward). But that during a `make install` on Tru 64 Unix pod2man did not seem to mind the new dollar signs here: ../perl -I ../lib ../pod/pod2man --section=1 --official perlrun.pod > /tmp/pvh p/man/man1/perlrun.tmp ln /tmp/pvhp/man/man1/perlrun.tmp /tmp/pvhp/man/man1/perlrun.1 unlink /tmp/pvhp/man/man1/perlrun.tmp (although isn't pod2man now using the non-complaining Pod::Parser?) at any rate, here is the addition to perlrun.pod: --- pod/perlrun.pod.orig Fri May 5 19:06:10 2000 +++ pod/perlrun.pod Fri May 5 19:08:22 2000 @@ -809,6 +809,18 @@ this controls the behavior of global destruction of objects and other references. +=item PERL_ROOT (specific to the VMS port) + +A translation concealed rooted logical name that contains perl and the +logical device for the @INC path on VMS only. Other logical names that +affect perl on VMS include PERLSHR, PERL_ENV_TABLES, and +SYS$TIMEZONE_DIFFERENTIAL but are optional and discussed further in +the F<README.vms> and L<perlvms> documents. + +=item SYS$LOGIN (specific to the VMS port) + +Used if chdir has no argument and HOME and LOGDIR are not set. + =back Perl also has environment variables that control how Perl handles data End of Patch. Peter Prymmer
