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author | Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> | 2011-02-19 17:30:45 -0800 |
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committer | Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> | 2011-02-19 17:42:20 -0800 |
commit | c315a7016f1af4812d86126359e5bc25697ef208 (patch) | |
tree | 2c5dd45e6f020635af3a7118d43d95bd7ae59cd7 | |
parent | b056a7aa384a2137a7ce032755b4cf7e334b6d61 (diff) | |
download | perl-c315a7016f1af4812d86126359e5bc25697ef208.tar.gz |
Minor perlfaq8 tweaks
-rw-r--r-- | pod/perlfaq8.pod | 16 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfaq8.pod b/pod/perlfaq8.pod index 0e9fcc5bfd..adc1d49c6b 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq8.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq8.pod @@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ L<perlfunc/"sysopen"> for more on this approach. Some devices will be expecting a "\r" at the end of each line rather than a "\n". In some ports of perl, "\r" and "\n" are different from -their usual (Unix) ASCII values of "\012" and "\015". You may have to +their usual (Unix) ASCII values of "\015" and "\012". You may have to give the numeric values you want directly, using octal ("\015"), hex ("0x0D"), or as a control-character specification ("\cM"). @@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ L<perlfunc/syscall>. =head2 How can I do an atexit() or setjmp()/longjmp()? (Exception handling) You can use the C<END> block to simulate C<atexit()>. Each package's -C<END> block is called when the program or thread ends See L<perlmod> +C<END> block is called when the program or thread ends. See the L<perlmod> manpage for more details about C<END> blocks. For example, you can use this to make sure your filter program managed @@ -860,7 +860,7 @@ list. Further examples of this can be found in L<perlipc/"Safe Pipe Opens">. Note that if you're using Windows, no solution to this vexing issue is -even possible. Even if Perl were to emulate C<fork()>, you'd still be +even possible. Even though Perl emulates C<fork()>, you'll still be stuck, because Windows does not have an argc/argv-style API. =head2 Why can't my script read from STDIN after I gave it EOF (^D on Unix, ^Z on MS-DOS)? @@ -1302,11 +1302,11 @@ include path (@INC) at runtime?> for details on how to run your newly installed modules. There is one caveat with INSTALL_BASE, though, since it acts -differently than the PREFIX and LIB settings that older versions of +differently from the PREFIX and LIB settings that older versions of C<ExtUtils::MakeMaker> advocated. INSTALL_BASE does not support installing modules for multiple versions of Perl or different -architectures under the same directory. You should consider if you -really want that , and if you do, use the older PREFIX and LIB +architectures under the same directory. You should consider whether you +really want that and, if you do, use the older PREFIX and LIB settings. See the C<ExtUtils::Makemaker> documentation for more details. =head2 How do I add the directory my program lives in to the module/library search path? @@ -1391,8 +1391,8 @@ environment variables, run-time switches, and in-code statements: =back -The last is particularly useful because it knows about machine -dependent architectures. The C<lib.pm> pragmatic module was first +The last is particularly useful because it knows about machine-dependent +architectures. The C<lib.pm> pragmatic module was first included with the 5.002 release of Perl. =head2 What is socket.ph and where do I get it? |