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perlport changes for windows #21591

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perlport: -S on Win32 has been meaningful since 01052a1d7
tonycoz Oct 26, 2023
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perlport: windows strange behaviour with . at the end of names
tonycoz Oct 26, 2023
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perlport: -l is now meaningful on Win32
tonycoz Oct 26, 2023
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11 changes: 9 additions & 2 deletions pod/perlport.pod
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Expand Up @@ -398,6 +398,10 @@ directory if their names are lowercased and truncated to eight
characters before the C<.>, if any, and to three characters after the
C<.>, if any). (And do not use C<.>s in directory names.)

On Windows extra C<.>s at the end of a file or directory name are
ignored in most circumstances, and a directory name containing only
three or more C<.>s are treated as the current directory by some APIs.

=head2 System Interaction

Not all platforms provide a command line. These are usually platforms
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1508,7 +1512,10 @@ C<-R>, C<-W>, C<-X>, C<-O> are indistinguishable from C<-r>, C<-w>,
C<-x>, C<-o>.

(Win32, VMS, S<RISC OS>)
C<-g>, C<-k>, C<-l>, C<-u>, C<-A> are not particularly meaningful.
C<-g>, C<-k>, C<-u>, C<-A> are not particularly meaningful.

(VMS, S<RISC OS>)
C<-l> is not particularly meaningful.

(Win32)
C<-l> returns true for both symlinks and directory junctions.
Expand All @@ -1521,7 +1528,7 @@ C<-d> is true if passed a device spec without an explicit directory.

(Win32)
C<-x> (or C<-X>) determine if a file ends in one of the executable
suffixes. C<-S> is meaningless.
suffixes.

(S<RISC OS>)
C<-x> (or C<-X>) determine if a file has an executable file type.
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