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u (Micah James Cooper) writes:
> How do you open files in another directory using perl on the VAX?
> ie:  It didn't seem to like open(FILE, "[hon.muhonors.www]prepend.txt")
> much, or is this correct and something else was wrong?
 
This should work just fine.  Try something like:
 
  open(FILE, "[hon.muhonors.www]prepend.txt") || die "Error opening file: $!";
 
This will print the actual error message (it's stored in $!) for the error
you're getting.  This may help determine the problem.
 
Perl on VMS should also accept something like this:
 
  open(FILE, "/sys_users/hon/muhonors/www/prepend.txt");
 
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