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Perl on VOS is discussed in F<README.vos> in the perl distribution
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(installed as L<perlvos>). Perl on VOS can accept either VOS- or
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Unix-style file specifications as in either of the following:
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Perl on VOS (also known as OpenVOS) is discussed in F<README.vos>
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in the perl distribution (installed as L<perlvos>). Perl on VOS
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can accept either VOS- or Unix-style file specifications as in
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either of the following:
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$ perl -ne "print if /perl_setup/i" >system>notices
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$ perl -ne "print if /perl_setup/i" /system/notices
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Even though VOS allows the slash character to appear in object
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names, because the VOS port of Perl interprets it as a pathname
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delimiting character, VOS files, directories, or links whose names
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contain a slash character cannot be processed. Such files must be
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renamed before they can be processed by Perl. Note that VOS limits
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file names to 32 or fewer characters, file names cannot start with a
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C<-> character, or contain any character matching C<< tr/ !%&'()*+;<>?// >>
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The value of C<$^O> on VOS is "VOS". To determine the architecture that
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you are running on without resorting to loading all of C<%Config> you
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can examine the content of the @INC array like so:
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delimiting character, VOS files, directories, or links whose
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names contain a slash character cannot be processed. Such files
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must be renamed before they can be processed by Perl.
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Older releases of VOS (prior to OpenVOS Release 17.0) limit file
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names to 32 or fewer characters, prohibit file names from
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starting with a C<-> character, and prohibit file names from
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containing any character matching C<< tr/ !#%&'()*;<=>?// >>.
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Newer releases of VOS (OpenVOS Release 17.0 or later) support a
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feature known as extended names. On these releases, file names
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can contain up to 255 characters, are prohibited from starting
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with a C<-> character, and the set of prohibited characters is
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reduced to any character matching C<< tr/#%*<>?// >>. There are
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restrictions involving spaces and apostrophies: these characters
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must not begin or end a name, nor can they immediately precede or
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follow a period. Additionally, a space must not immediately
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precede another space or hyphen. Specifically, the following
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character combinations are prohibited: space-space,
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space-hyphen, period-space, space-period, period-apostrophe,
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apostrophe-period, leading or trailing space, and leading or
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trailing apostrophe. Although an extended file name is limited
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to 255 characters, a path name is still limited to 256
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The value of C<$^O> on VOS is "VOS". To determine the
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architecture that you are running on without resorting to loading
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all of C<%Config> you can examine the content of the @INC array
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if ($^O =~ /VOS/) {
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print "I'm on a Stratus box!\n";
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The VOS mailing list.
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There is no specific mailing list for Perl on VOS. You can post
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comments to the comp.sys.stratus newsgroup, or subscribe to the general
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Stratus mailing list. Send a letter with "subscribe Info-Stratus" in
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the message body to majordomo@list.stratagy.com.
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comments to the comp.sys.stratus newsgroup, or use the contact
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information located in the distribution files on the Stratus
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Not implemented. ( Win32, VMS, S<RISC OS>, VOS)
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Not implemented. (Win32, VMS, S<RISC OS>)
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Not implemented. (MPE/iX, VMS, Win32, S<RISC OS>, VOS)
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Not implemented. (MPE/iX, VMS, Win32, S<RISC OS>)
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