Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 00:07:31 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [Ux2bs_Archive] No. 378 ************************************************** Friday 17 December 2004 Number 378 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: Perl 5.8.6 : John Poltorak **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:18:22 +0000 From: John Poltorak Subject: Re: Perl 5.8.6 On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 05:26:42PM -0500, Henry Sobotka wrote: > I just looked at the Visual Age 3.0 Control Programming Guide (1995, > pre-JFS) and it lists '+' as one of the four characters not to be used > in naming EAs ("reserved for system use"). Do you have a reference for this? And is there a later guide (post-JFS) where this may have changed? > So the Perl test is flawed in > not expecting '++' to fail and treating the failure as a pass, and the > fact that it happens to work on HPFS is a file-system bug. Is that acknowledged by IBM? > h~ -- John _______________________________________________ UX2BS mailing list UX2BS at os2ports.com http://os2ports.com/mailman/listinfo/ux2bs