[Info-vax] Suggestion: Enhance DCL to support proper escape quoting.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/20/2022 2:49 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On 1/20/22 11:37 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 1/20/22 11:26 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> When Larry Wall released the first public version of Perl the build
>>> configuration included:
>>>
>>> <quote>
>>> /* EUNICE:
>>>   *    This symbol, if defined, indicates that the program is being 
>>> compiled
>>>   *    under the EUNICE package under VMS.  The program will need to 
>>> handle
>>>   *    things like files that don't go away the first time you unlink 
>>> them,
>>>   *    due to version numbering.  It will also need to compensate for 
>>> lack
>>>   *    of a respectable link() command.
>>>   */
>>> /* VMS:
>>>   *    This symbol, if defined, indicates that the program is running 
>>> under
>>>   *    VMS.  It is currently only set in conjunction with the EUNICE 
>>> symbol.
>>>   */
>>> </quote>
>>>
>>> so definitely Unix centric but VMS aware.
>>
>> EUNICE?  That's Unix running on top of VMS. :-)
>> Can it be compiled and run if you set the VMS flag?
> 
> I've been involved with maintaining Perl on VMS for over twenty years
> and it is certainly not an afterthought.  The EUNICE support came and
> went before my time and really has nothing to do with the current port,
> which I believe originated in one of the early Perl 5 releases, maybe
> about 1997 or so.

I don't think Eunice was popular so no surprise.

Arne