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diff --git a/vms/perlvms.pod b/vms/perlvms.pod index c599e5834c..4aa68008d5 100644 --- a/vms/perlvms.pod +++ b/vms/perlvms.pod @@ -329,7 +329,12 @@ undefined behavior (rarely, we hope): getgrnam, setgrent, endgrent, ioctl, link, lstat, msgctl, msgget, msgsend, msgrcv, readlink, semctl, semget, semop, setpgrp, setpriority, shmctl, shmget, - shmread, shmwrite, socketpair, symlink, syscall, truncate + shmread, shmwrite, socketpair, symlink, syscall + +The following functions are available on Perls compiled with Dec C 5.2 or +greater and running VMS 7.0 or greater + + truncate The following functions may or may not be implemented, depending on what type of socket support you've built into @@ -749,12 +754,23 @@ it's equivalent to calling fflush() and fsync() from C. =back +=head1 Standard modules with VMS-specific differences + +=head2 SDBM_File + +SDBM_File works peroperly on VMS. It has, however, one minor +difference. The database directory file created has a L<.sdbm_dir> +extension rather than a L<.dir> extension. L<.dir> files are VMS filesystem +directory files, and using them for other purposes could cause unacceptable +problems. + =head1 Revision date -This document was last updated on 28-Feb-1996, for Perl 5, -patchlevel 2. +This document was last updated on 26-Feb-1998, for Perl 5, +patchlevel 5. =head1 AUTHOR -Charles Bailey bailey@genetics.upenn.edu +Charles Bailey bailey@cor.newman.upenn.edu +Last revision by Dan Sugalski sugalskd@ous.edu |