Re: VMS::Filespec vs. hardcoding in VMS.C in Perl 5.8.1

[Barry Treahy, Jr.]

Craig Berry wrote:

Thanks for your efforts to get CPAN working.  You'll want to have a look at Chuck Lane's VMS::FileUtils module that creates ODS-2 safe names, among other things:

http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/C/CL/CLANE/VMS-FileUtils_0.014.tar.gz
 

Thanks, I'll take a look at it this afternoon.

IIRC, part of the problem with CPAN may be that external utilities also need additional tweaking.  For example, you may need a version of gunzip that does command-line redirection without help from the pipe command.  
 

I could be mistaken, but what I'm observing appears to be a problem with
CPAN just obtaining the index files and having it bomb when it attempts
to transfer them to a VMS system which croaks when the unexpected
periods arrive (ie. .tar.gz).  I'm not sure, I believe it is just
attempting to get the files, prior to any external unzipping efforts,
correct?
Barry

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