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authorAndy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>1995-05-30 01:56:48 +0000
committerAndy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>1995-05-30 01:56:48 +0000
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downloadperl-f06db76b9e41859439aeadb79feb6c603ee741ff.tar.gz
This is my patch patch.1g for perl5.001.
This patch only includes updates to the lib/ directory and the removal of the pod/modpods. The main things are the following: The modpods are now embedded in their corresponding .pm files. The Grand AutoLoader patch. Updates to lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp by Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk>. Minor changes to a very few modules and pods. To apply, change to your perl directory, run the commands above, then apply with patch -p1 -N < thispatch. After you apply this patch, you should go on to apply patch.1h and patch.1i before reConfiguring and building. Patch and enjoy, Andy Dougherty doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu Dept. of Physics Lafayette College, Easton PA Here's the file-by-file description: lib/AnyDBM_File.pm Embedded pod. lib/AutoLoader.pm Grand AutoLoader patch. Embedded pod. lib/AutoSplit.pm Grand AutoLoader patch. Embedded pod. Skip pod sections when splitting .pm files. lib/Benchmark.pm lib/Carp.pm lib/Cwd.pm lib/English.pm Grand AutoLoader patch. Embedded pod. lib/Exporter.pm Grand AutoLoader patch. Embedded pod. Update comments to match behavior. lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm Include installation of .pod and .pm files. Space out documentation for better printing with pod2man. lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp Patches from Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk>, 22 May 1995. Now at version 1.4. lib/File/Basename.pm Embedded pod. lib/File/CheckTree.pm Embedded pod. lib/File/Find.pm Embedded pod. Included finddepth pod too. lib/FileHandle.pm Embedded pod. lib/Getopt/Long.pm Embedded pod. Fixed PERMUTE order bug. lib/Getopt/Std.pm Embedded pod. Caught accessing undefined element off end of @arg array. lib/I18N/Collate.pm lib/IPC/Open2.pm lib/IPC/Open3.pm lib/Net/Ping.pm Embedded pod. lib/Term/Complete.pm Embedded pod. Changed name from complete to Complete to match documentation and exported name. lib/Text/Abbrev.pm Embedded pod. lib/Text/Tabs.pm Updated. lib/integer.pm lib/less.pm lib/sigtrap.pm lib/strict.pm lib/subs.pm Embedded pod.
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@@ -2,6 +2,55 @@ package FileHandle;
# Note that some additional FileHandle methods are defined in POSIX.pm.
+=head1 NAME
+
+FileHandle - supply object methods for filehandles
+
+cacheout - keep more files open than the system permits
+
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+ use FileHandle;
+ autoflush STDOUT 1;
+
+ cacheout($path);
+ print $path @data;
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+See L<perlvar> for complete descriptions of each of the following supported C<FileHandle>
+methods:
+
+ print
+ autoflush
+ output_field_separator
+ output_record_separator
+ input_record_separator
+ input_line_number
+ format_page_number
+ format_lines_per_page
+ format_lines_left
+ format_name
+ format_top_name
+ format_line_break_characters
+ format_formfeed
+
+The cacheout() function will make sure that there's a filehandle
+open for writing available as the pathname you give it. It automatically
+closes and re-opens files if you exceed your system file descriptor maximum.
+
+=head1 BUGS
+
+F<sys/param.h> lies with its C<NOFILE> define on some systems,
+so you may have to set $cacheout::maxopen yourself.
+
+Due to backwards compatibility, all filehandles resemble objects
+of class C<FileHandle>, or actually classes derived from that class.
+They actually aren't. Which means you can't derive your own
+class from C<FileHandle> and inherit those methods.
+
+=cut
+
require 5.000;
use English;
use Exporter;