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"Robbie Hatley" <see DOT my DOT signature AT for DOT my DOT email DOT address> wrote in
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> 
> "A. Sinan Unur" wrote:
> 
>> Here is my guess, File::Temp is OK, but Pod::Perldoc only seems
>> to check and take care of the shortcomings of Win32. However, the
>> same shortcomings exist in DJGPP running on Win32 as well. I did
>> look at MSWin_perldoc_tempfile in Perldoc.pm and it looks like
>> the DJGPP would need special handling as well.

...

> I'll try that, but i'm not hopeful.  The error messages show
> different random 10-character file names each time I try
> running Perldoc.

The point I was trying to make wasn't about the actual filename 
being generated but I was referring to the fact that Windows temp 
files required special handling.

> So perldoc.pm is successfully coming up with
> random file names, but they apparently get rejected somewhere.

...
 
> Hmmm... 10 characters... I wonder if something in the DJGPP
> version of Perl or perldoc.pm is expecting 8x3 DOS file names?
> If so, it may reject 10x3.

Actually, Perldoc.pm generates way more than 10 characters:

perldoc_perlfunc_t4805fd11_1e43f.txt

I don't know where you got 10 from.

>  How would I go about altering
> perldoc.pm to use 8x3 instead of 10x3 temp file names?

I used one method in the code I posted: prefix pd, lower 24 bits of 
time (6 hex digits) and three character extension.

I only did that to be on the safe side.

Sinan

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