From: Nicholas Clark Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:28:09 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Add characters that VOS forbids in filenames, mentioned by Paul Green X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b449fc5bc1becdea88209fddaeded02846c96690;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Add characters that VOS forbids in filenames, mentioned by Paul Green in private correspondence. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@33485 --- diff --git a/pod/perlport.pod b/pod/perlport.pod index c6c7891..41c4e0a 100644 --- a/pod/perlport.pod +++ b/pod/perlport.pod @@ -1259,7 +1259,8 @@ names, because the VOS port of Perl interprets it as a pathname delimiting character, VOS files, directories, or links whose names contain a slash character cannot be processed. Such files must be renamed before they can be processed by Perl. Note that VOS limits -file names to 32 or fewer characters. +file names to 32 or fewer characters, file names cannot start with a +C<-> character, or contain any character matching C<< tr/ !%&'()*+;<>?// >> The value of C<$^O> on VOS is "VOS". To determine the architecture that you are running on without resorting to loading all of C<%Config> you