fix description of obsolete diagnostic

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5001

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index 7891bc2ad3..2cf4bb6e58 100644
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -1584,22 +1584,11 @@ line was ignored.
 
 =item Illegal character %s (carriage return)
 
-(F) A carriage return character was found in the input.  This is an
-error, and not a warning, because carriage return characters can break
-multi-line strings, including here documents (e.g., C<print E<lt>E<lt>EOF;>).
-
-Under Unix, this error is usually caused by executing Perl code --
-either the main program, a module, or an eval'd string -- that was
-transferred over a network connection from a non-Unix system without
-properly converting the text file format.
-
-Under systems that use something other than '\n' to delimit lines of
-text, this error can also be caused by reading Perl code from a file
-handle that is in binary mode (as set by the C<binmode> operator).
-
-In either case, the Perl code in question will probably need to be
-converted with something like C<s/\x0D\x0A?/\n/g> before it can be
-executed.
+(F) Perl normally treats carriage returns in the program text as it
+would any other whitespace, which means you should never see this
+error when Perl was built using standard options.  For some reason,
+your version of Perl appears to have been built without this support.
+Talk to your Perl administrator.
 
 =item Illegal division by zero