Stratus VOS port status and issue.

[Steve Langasek]

On Sat, 13 May 2000, James Sutherland wrote:

> > Have you considered patching dos_to_unix() to convert VOS file paths to
> > Unix ones? (i.e. replace %, # and > with /, and vice versa? This looks
> > like the "cleanest" place to do it, AFAICS.

> > 1. How could you then translate back?

> unix_to_dos()

However, if you translate all three of %, #, and > to /, then there's no
unique mapping for the / character when calling unix_to_dos()... unless
there's some way to unambiguate the mapping based on the position of the
character within the string (messy), then this won't work.

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer