From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-06-17T04:04:29+09:00
Subject: Re: OpenVMS woes

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yukihiro Matsumoto [mailto:matz@ruby-lang.org] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 8:40 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: OpenVMS woes
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: OpenVMS woes"
>     on Thu, 16 Jun 2005 19:41:27 +0900, Renald Buter 
> <buter@cwts.leidenuniv.nl> writes:
> 
> |But unfortunately, some very basic stuff does not seem to work, like 
> |for
> |example:
> |
> |  open 'tmpdir'
> |  p File.join(tmpdir, "file.dat")
> |
> |will output:
> |
> |  "/tmp/file.dat"
> |
> |which is clearly *not* what I want...
> 
> That means either
> 
>   * the author (me) has zero knowledge about OpenVMS
>   * the OpenVMS port is fairly incomplete
> 
> or both.  Any help is welcome always.
> 
> 							matz.

I don't know if you're interested, but the HP testdrive program has a
few OpenVMS machines setup, if you just need access to an OpenVMS box to
play on.

www.testdrive.hp.com

Regards,

Dan