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| author | brian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org> | 2010-01-13 16:29:30 +0100 |
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| committer | brian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org> | 2010-01-13 16:29:30 +0100 |
| commit | 8d2e243f5816f9d2c4247f962523e4220e4a9ce8 (patch) | |
| tree | 0bf3370d386eaeb7d1637928f8aa84853b956c43 /pod/perlfaq3.pod | |
| parent | 3b10bc60979cfe9ad677ef795a35603768200ad6 (diff) | |
| download | perl-8d2e243f5816f9d2c4247f962523e4220e4a9ce8.tar.gz | |
* FAQ sync for Perl 5.12 release candidate
This is commit cfc60b072536b6232cec8a3a3551c8bdf3c3eefd from the
perlfaq repository at git@github.com:briandfoy/perlfaq.git
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diff --git a/pod/perlfaq3.pod b/pod/perlfaq3.pod index 7be2379499..c529c269c9 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq3.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq3.pod @@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ You might also try pltags: http://www.mscha.com/pltags.zip Perl programs are just plain text, so any editor will do. -If you're on Unix, you already have an IDE--Unix itself. The Unix +If you're on Unix, you already have an IDE--Unix itself. The UNIX philosophy is the philosophy of several small tools that each do one thing and do it well. It's like a carpenter's toolbox. @@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ For vi lovers in general, Windows or elsewhere: nvi ( http://www.bostic.com/vi/ , available from CPAN in src/misc/) is yet another vi clone, unfortunately not available for Windows, but in -Unix platforms you might be interested in trying it out, firstly because +UNIX platforms you might be interested in trying it out, firstly because strictly speaking it is not a vi clone, it is the real vi, or the new incarnation of it, and secondly because you can embed Perl inside it to use Perl as the scripting language. nvi is not alone in this, @@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ MKS and U/WIN are commercial (U/WIN is free for educational and research purposes), Cygwin is covered by the GNU General Public License (but that shouldn't matter for Perl use). The Cygwin, MKS, and U/WIN all contain (in addition to the shells) a comprehensive set -of standard Unix toolkit utilities. +of standard UNIX toolkit utilities. If you're transferring text files between Unix and Windows using FTP be sure to transfer them in ASCII mode so the ends of lines are @@ -912,7 +912,7 @@ executables for HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and Windows." Perl2Exe ( http://www.indigostar.com/perl2exe.htm ) is a command line program for converting perl scripts to executable files. It targets both -Windows and Unix platforms. +Windows and unix platforms. =head2 How can I get C<#!perl> to work on [MS-DOS,NT,...]? @@ -1080,20 +1080,12 @@ or The C<ExtUtils::MakeMaker> module, better known simply as "MakeMaker", turns a Perl script, typically called C<Makefile.PL>, into a Makefile. -The Unix tool C<make> uses this file to manage dependencies and actions +The unix tool C<make> uses this file to manage dependencies and actions to process and install a Perl distribution. -=head1 REVISION - -Revision: $Revision$ - -Date: $Date$ - -See L<perlfaq> for source control details and availability. - =head1 AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT -Copyright (c) 1997-2009 Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington, and +Copyright (c) 1997-2010 Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington, and other authors as noted. All rights reserved. This documentation is free; you can redistribute it and/or modify it |