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authorCraig A. Berry <craigberry@mac.com>2001-10-19 11:59:30 -0500
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-10-19 21:10:43 +0000
commitf3298698649960f55687abba6097c0cc3538214a (patch)
treebea1276c0fdfa694da683b216ba805c5474b591a /utils/perldoc.PL
parent96e176bf068724d05d4927c116d41d2f78a2560d (diff)
downloadperl-f3298698649960f55687abba6097c0cc3538214a.tar.gz
perldoc.PL tweak for VMS
Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20011019162623.021e3868@exchi01> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@12514
Diffstat (limited to 'utils/perldoc.PL')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/utils/perldoc.PL b/utils/perldoc.PL
index 22fdd1cfdb..7f8216a006 100644
--- a/utils/perldoc.PL
+++ b/utils/perldoc.PL
@@ -371,9 +371,13 @@ sub page {
close TMP or die "Can't close while $tmp: $!";
}
else {
- foreach my $pager (@pagers) {
+ # On VMS, quoting prevents logical expansion, and temp files with no
+ # extension get the wrong default extension (such as .LIS for TYPE)
+
+ $tmp = VMS::Filespec::rmsexpand($tmp, '.') if ($Is_VMS);
+ foreach my $pager (@pagers) {
if ($Is_VMS) {
- last if system("$pager $tmp") == 0; # quoting prevents logical expansion
+ last if system("$pager $tmp") == 0;
} else {
last if system("$pager \"$tmp\"") == 0;
}