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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-06-17 13:56:33 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-06-17 13:56:33 +0000
commitd5563ed7fd46e9485baaa3b43c79a6a71c7b4740 (patch)
treef2c56f1ea1bd2b836c2c04b806e7c2ff19009333 /lib/open.pm
parentd77d04a3e8f761ce8f9aa940083e07bc8db0fa85 (diff)
downloadperl-d5563ed7fd46e9485baaa3b43c79a6a71c7b4740.tar.gz
Further discouraging of :raw.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17271
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diff --git a/lib/open.pm b/lib/open.pm
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@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ open - perl pragma to set default disciplines for input and output
=head1 SYNOPSIS
- use open IN => ":crlf", OUT => ":raw";
+ use open IN => ":crlf", OUT => ":bytes";
use open OUT => ':utf8';
use open IO => ":encoding(iso-8859-7)";
@@ -263,9 +263,9 @@ Directory handles may also support disciplines in future.
=head1 NONPERLIO FUNCTIONALITY
If Perl is not built to use PerlIO as its IO system then only the two
-pseudo-disciplines ":raw" and ":crlf" are available.
+pseudo-disciplines C<:bytes> and C<:crlf> are available.
-The ":raw" discipline corresponds to "binary mode" and the ":crlf"
+The C<:bytes> discipline corresponds to "binary mode" and the C<:crlf>
discipline corresponds to "text mode" on platforms that distinguish
between the two modes when opening files (which is many DOS-like
platforms, including Windows). These two disciplines are no-ops on