When placing the configured paging program at the head of its list of possible pagers, lib/pod/Perldoc.pm uses the -x file test to see if the program can be run by the current process. This test generally fails on VMS because $Config{pager} is by default a command and not a file. The patch below gets us our configured pager back by skipping the file test on VMS. This is against perl-5.8.x@18953.Thread Next