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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2003-06-12 11:32:44 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2003-06-12 11:32:44 +0000
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Further perlio doc tweaks.
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@@ -115,11 +115,11 @@ to a such a stream.
=item raw
The C<:raw> layer is I<defined> as being identical to calling
-C<binmode($fh)> - the stream is made suitable for passing binary
-data i.e. each byte is passed as-is. The stream will still be
-buffered. Unlike earlier versions of perl C<:raw> is I<not> just the
-inverse of C<:crlf> - other layers which would affect the binary nature of
-the stream are also removed or disabled.
+C<binmode($fh)> - the stream is made suitable for passing binary data
+i.e. each byte is passed as-is. The stream will still be
+buffered. Unlike in the earlier versions of Perl C<:raw> is I<not>
+just the inverse of C<:crlf> - other layers which would affect the
+binary nature of the stream are also removed or disabled.
The implementation of C<:raw> is as a pseudo-layer which when "pushed"
pops itself and then any layers which do not declare themselves as suitable