updated for version 7.0-171
diff --git a/src/buffer.c b/src/buffer.c
index 4049f71..adc70fe 100644
--- a/src/buffer.c
+++ b/src/buffer.c
@@ -4145,11 +4145,13 @@
/*
* Force expanding the path always for Unix, because symbolic links may
* mess up the full path name, even though it starts with a '/'.
+ * Also expand always for VMS, it may have alternate paths that need to be
+ * resolved.
* Also expand when there is ".." in the file name, try to remove it,
* because "c:/src/../README" is equal to "c:/README".
* For MS-Windows also expand names like "longna~1" to "longname".
*/
-#ifdef UNIX
+#if defined(UNIX) || defined(VMS)
return FullName_save(fname, TRUE);
#else
if (!vim_isAbsName(fname) || strstr((char *)fname, "..") != NULL