Thank you for your very interesting suggestion, other Anonymous Monk, but as I said below, I succeeded to make it work. As noted below, while trying to solve the first issue (the path to the dir), I made the mistake of changing the module name to all-uppercase in my use module; statement, so that, in the end, once having solve the path problem, the module would load correctly, but the package would no longer be recognized. I have now solved it by putting it back to use VMS_utils;.

As for the say, I am stuck on VMS with Perl 5.8, so that feature does not exists. I just wrote my own version of say in the module. The fact that it did not recognized say indicated in fact that the package was not being recognized.

Thanks anyway for your help.

Update: Ooops, I had not seen your second answer when I wrote the above, or probably it was not yet there when I loaded the page and decided to answer.

In reply to Re^4: Using a module under VMS by Laurent_R
in thread Solved - Using a module under VMS by Laurent_R

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