1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/diagnostics.pm b/lib/diagnostics.pm
index f40c51e030..2c55430ff6 100755
--- a/lib/diagnostics.pm
+++ b/lib/diagnostics.pm
@@ -3,7 +3,11 @@ eval 'exec perl -S $0  ${1+"$@"}'
     if 0;
 
 use Config;
-$diagnostics::PODFILE= $Config{privlib} . "/pod/perldiag.pod";
+if ($Config{'osname'} eq 'VMS') {
+   $diagnostics::PODFILE = VMS::Filespec::unixify($Config{'privlib'} .
+                           '/pod/perldiag.pod';
+}
+else { $diagnostics::PODFILE= $Config{privlib} . "/pod/perldiag.pod"; }
 
 package diagnostics;
 require 5.001;