perl 3.0: (no announcement message available)perl-3.000

A few of the new features: (18 Oct)

    * Perl can now handle binary data correctly and has functions to pack and unpack binary structures into arrays or lists. You can now do arbitrary ioctl functions.
    * You can now pass things to subroutines by reference.
    * Debugger enhancements.
    * An array or associative array may now appear in a local() list.
    * Array values may now be interpolated into strings.
    * Subroutine names are now distinguished by prefixing with &. You can call subroutines without using do, and without passing any argument list at all.
    * You can use the new -u switch to cause perl to dump core so that you can run undump and produce a binary executable image. Alternately you can use the "dump" operator after initializing any variables and such.
    * You can now chop lists.
    * Perl now uses /bin/csh to do filename globbing, if available. This means that filenames with spaces or other strangenesses work right.
    * New functions: mkdir and rmdir, getppid, getpgrp and setpgrp, getpriority and setpriority, chroot, ioctl and fcntl, flock, readlink, lstat, rindex, pack and unpack, read, warn, dbmopen and dbmclose, dump, reverse, defined, undef.

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/README b/README
index 0fb953aec0..ba603da3fc 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,10 +1,22 @@
 
-			Perl Kit, Version 2.0
+			Perl Kit, Version 3.0
 
-		    Copyright (c) 1988, Larry Wall
+		    Copyright (c) 1989, Larry Wall
+
+    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+    the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option)
+    any later version.
+
+    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+    GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+    Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
 
-You may copy the perl kit in whole or in part as long as you don't try to
-make money off it, or pretend that you wrote it.
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 Perl is a language that combines some of the features of C, sed, awk and shell.
@@ -13,7 +25,7 @@ See the manual page for more hype.
 Perl will probably not run on machines with a small address space.
 
 Please read all the directions below before you proceed any further, and
-then follow them carefully.  Failure to do so may void your warranty. :-)
+then follow them carefully.
 
 After you have unpacked your kit, you should have all the files listed
 in MANIFEST.
@@ -58,7 +70,7 @@ Installation
 
 6)  make install
 
-    This will put perl into a public directory (normally /usr/local/bin).
+    This will put perl into a public directory (such as /usr/local/bin).
     It will also try to put the man pages in a reasonable place.  It will not
     nroff the man page, however.  You may need to be root to do this.  If
     you are not root, you must own the directories in question and you should
@@ -66,10 +78,7 @@ Installation
 
 7)  Read the manual entry before running perl.
 
-8)  Go down to the x2p directory and do a "make depend, a "make" and a
-    "make install" to create the awk to perl and sed to perl translators.
-
-9)  IMPORTANT!  Help save the world!  Communicate any problems and suggested
+8)  IMPORTANT!  Help save the world!  Communicate any problems and suggested
     patches to me, lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Larry Wall), so we can
     keep the world in sync.  If you have a problem, there's someone else
     out there who either has had or will have the same problem.
@@ -83,3 +92,9 @@ Installation
     perl and aren't sure how many patches there are, write to me and I'll
     send any you don't have.  Your current patch level is shown in patchlevel.h.
 
+
+Just a personal note:  I want you to know that I create nice things like this
+because it pleases the Author of my story.  If this bothers you, then your
+notion of Authorship needs some revision.  But you can use perl anyway. :-)
+
+							The author.