The attached patch corrects three minor issues for VMS in configure.com. It's relevant (and should apply cleanly to) both 5.8.1-to-be and bleadperl. -- fixes $Config{sig_num} to be space-separated and not zero-terminated so we don't fail lib/Config.t. Does the same for $Config{sig_name}. Thanks to Peter Prymmer for getting me 90% there on this part. -- removed false impression that we support readdir_r in threaded builds. The C run-time supports it but we are using a home-grown version of readdir. -- upgraded the options passed to the default paging program for all versions of VMS released in the last nine years or so. Left the old options for older versions.