"Craig A. Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/25/2003 01:27:04 PM:
> We can now say shipped, past tense, which means that your very good
> doc patch is too late for 5.8.1.
Thanks for the announcement (I have been patiently waiting for
5.8.1 :-)
> Hang on there. Since multiple dots in a filename are legal on other
> file systems (or perhaps have alternate escaping mechanisms), I don't
> think the non-VMS version of VMS::Filespec should necessarily try to
> handle the ODS-5 style caret escapes. This requires a lot more
> thought, or at least I should say I don't fully understand all the
> implication myself yet.
I wasn't speaking of the conversion of unix to vms rather the lexical
VMS ODS-5 style of DISK$ODS5:[foo^.bar.buz] to the unixish
style /DISK$ODS5/foo^.bar/buz/ with ^. preserved. Does that make sense?
We might as well discuss and flesh it out for bleedperl consideration.
Peter Prymmer
