MM_VMS and File::Spec::VMS.pm intertanglement.

The comments for eliminate_macros() and fixpath() in File::Spec::VMS 
imply that they are only used in older versions of Make Maker that does 
not contain them.

Putting a print STDERR statement shows that is not the case, that the 
methods of those names contained in File::Spec::VMS are used unless they 
are called by MM_VMS.

I am now trying to update File::Spec to handle VMS EFS character 
specifications and GNV (GNU is not VMS) Unix compatibilty mode, so I 
will need to first update File::Spec::VMS, and then MM_VMS later.

In the EFS (Extended character set) mode, in addition to handling the 
extended character set, the routines will return Unix syntax for Unix 
input and VMS syntax for VMS input.

For cases where there is no input, or the input does not indicate the 
output format, then the output will be in VMS syntax unless the UNIX 
compatibilty mode is also on.  If that mode is on, then ambigous output 
will be in Unix syntax.

This appears to match the expectation of most of the Perl scripts that I 
have worked on getting ported to VMS.

-John
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