Re: [patch@31780] fixes for cpanplus on VMS 
On 03 Oct 2007, at 15:12, John E. Malmberg wrote:
>>>
>> In this case it's a single directory yes, but i've generalized it  
>> to  'fix unsafe paths' on VMS.
>> What would be the proper way to reconstruct the path after the  
>> '/'  trick on VMS?
>
> File::Spec->catdir will put the path back together.
>
> The '/' trick only works if the string is a directory name with  
> UNIX style directory delimiters or no directory delimiters.  It is  
> to force vmsify to treat the input specification as UNIX.
>
> There is a VMS::Filespec::unixpath() to do the appending of the '/'  
> to the specification, which will do a VMS::Filespec::vmsify() if  
> needed.
>
> However it is not a good idea to call vmsify() on a pathname  
> returned by unixify(), and it is not a good idea to call unixify()  
> on a pathname returned by vmsify().  Because of the nature of the  
> conversion, not all file specifications can make the round trip.
>
> I think that directory specifications can safely make the round  
> trip, but not ones containing filenames.

Thanks for explaining -- i've updated the code accordingly.

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