More on PHP 5.3 and up: Continued
Discussed the matter on the WASD-INFO list – and agreed it is a local issue: Mark Daniel has checked the installation of WordPress on his systems and he found no extra bytes. The only thing that may have caused the problem is unzip. The executable on Diana is quite old, and I found the latest (6.0) on info-zip.com. Downloaded it, built it on VMS and used it to install a separate version of WordPress. There are no extra bytes (good), all directories are lowercase now, files look good – but still, multiple dots in the filenames still occur, so the wp2vms procedure is still needed (ran it anyway to find out). For that, I set up a logical, and next, defined SYSBLOG to use it.
Well, this post has been added using this version!
It means I have to do some extra work, so all blogs run this version. After that, higher versions of PHP will probably work now.
What goes on behind the doors of the (private) data center