Re: VOL:[foo.bar][baz.biff]file.tmp doesn't happen to work, does it?

[Dan Sugalski]

At 4:38 PM -0500 11/18/02, Michael G Schwern wrote:

On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:14:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Had there been a translation concealed terminal logical name
 that last one would not have worked either.  Here is
 an illustration:

 $ define/trans=(conc,term) perl_root DKA200:[perl-5_6_1_root.]

Which almost every installation of Perl on VMS does.  *sigh*

Scratch that idea. :(

Isn't there some sort of principle about magic should go all the way down
and not just N levels deep?

Yep, and the current scheme is something of a hack, no doubt. Joys of backwards compatibility, unfortunately.

At least the 8-level limit was lifted for VMS 7.2, but that doesn't necessarily help you as perl 5.x runs on VMS 5.5...
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Dan

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