Re: Excel::Writer on OpenVMS

> On Oct 29, 2015, at 1:53 PM, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- =
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I need to get Excel::Writer functioning on VMS.  If you download the =
first
> of the example scripts for this package, you'll see that it complains =
when
> trying to create temporary directories into which worksheets and =
workbooks
> are stored.

What do those complaints look like?  This, perhaps?

$ perl -"I[.blib.lib]" examples/array_formula.pl
	(in cleanup) Couldn't create sub directory =
mda0:[craig.scratch.QHki3CLXLC]/xl: no such file or directory at =
blib/lib/Excel/Writer/XLSX/Workboo
k.pm line 957.

Looks like mongrel syntax to me.  It=E2=80=99s getting a temp file in =
native syntax, then pasting =E2=80=9C/xl=E2=80=9D onto it.  I=E2=80=99ll =
see if I can spot where it=E2=80=99s doing that and what to do about it =
as this would be a very nice module to have available.

> I've played about with defining various DECC$features logicals and =
results
> change but the errors all seem to focus about the creation of the =
temporary
> directories and files.
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> Has anyone got this package working on VMS?

I think I might=E2=80=99ve built a previous version once but don=E2=80=99t=
 recall actually using it.

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> Thanks in advance.=20
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> FWIW, I did have Spreadsheet::WriteExcel working to write .XLS files =
but I
> now need to write .XLSX files and Excel::Writer::XLSX looks to be the =
only
> package available.
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