> On Oct 29, 2015, at 1:53 PM, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- 
> <sys...@tmesis.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I need to get Excel::Writer functioning on VMS.  If you download the first
> of the example scripts for this package, you'll see that it complains when
> trying to create temporary directories into which worksheets and workbooks
> are stored.

What do those complaints look like?  This, perhaps?

$ perl -"I[.blib.lib]" examples/array_formula.pl
        (in cleanup) Couldn't create sub directory 
mda0:[craig.scratch.QHki3CLXLC]/xl: no such file or directory at 
blib/lib/Excel/Writer/XLSX/Workboo
k.pm line 957.

Looks like mongrel syntax to me.  It’s getting a temp file in native syntax, 
then pasting “/xl” onto it.  I’ll see if I can spot where it’s doing that and 
what to do about it as this would be a very nice module to have available.

> I've played about with defining various DECC$features logicals and results
> change but the errors all seem to focus about the creation of the temporary
> directories and files.
> 
> Has anyone got this package working on VMS?

I think I might’ve built a previous version once but don’t recall actually 
using it.

> 
> Thanks in advance. 
> 
> FWIW, I did have Spreadsheet::WriteExcel working to write .XLS files but I
> now need to write .XLSX files and Excel::Writer::XLSX looks to be the only
> package available.
> 
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