[inseparable changes from match from perl-5.003_94 to perl-5.003_95]

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

Subject: Don't compile scalar mods of aggregates, like C<@a =~ s/a/b/>
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: op.c t/op/misc.t

Subject: Warn about undef magic values just like non-magic
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: ext/Opcode/Safe.pm sv.c t/lib/db-btree.t t/lib/db-hash.t t/lib/db-recno.t t/pragma/locale.t

 CORE PORTABILITY

Subject: Win32 update (five patches)
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: MANIFEST README.win32 doio.c dosish.h pp_sys.c lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm t/comp/multiline.t t/op/magic.t t/op/mkdir.t t/op/runlevel.t t/op/stat.t t/op/write.t win32/Makefile win32/config.H win32/config.w32 win32/win32.c win32/win32.h win32/win32aux.c win32/*.mak win32/VC-2.0/*.mak

 DOCUMENTATION

Subject: INSTALL-1.8 to INSTALL-1.9 updates
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 13:52:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
Files: INSTALL
Msg-ID: Pine.SOL.3.95q.970325135138.3374A-100000@fractal.lafayette.e

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 9b1ae96a0b4301a9588f62b3175bc0312302f4b9)

Subject: Document possible problems with -Mdiagnostics after upgrade
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: INSTALL

Subject: Mention perldelta in INSTALL
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: INSTALL

Subject: Describe pod format at top of INSTALL
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: INSTALL

Subject: Document C</a *b/x> fix
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/perldelta.pod

Subject: pods for subroutine argument autovivication
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 07:25:21 +0000
From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlsub.pod
Msg-ID: E0w9489-0005YT-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit db8878faa51a8a1541a40745a8613adb5db155e4)

Subject: Missing item in perldiag
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 09:24:09 +0000
From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
Files: pod/perldiag.pod
Msg-ID: E0w8jVZ-0005va-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit c00a529017138505fcbe538b74c7884abe1d18e1)

Subject: Pod problems & fixes
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 21:31:51 +0100 (MET)
From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
Files: INSTALL lib/Term/Complete.pm lib/subs.pm pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldata.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlembed.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlmod.pod pod/perlop.pod pod/perlpod.pod pod/pod2html.PL
Msg-ID: 199703242031.VAA14997@bombur2.uio.no

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 55a864fe4cea1a0586891b83d359ba71e0972da5)

Subject: FAQ update
From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@prometheus.frii.com>
Files: pod/perlfaq*.pod

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

Subject: Improve 'prototype mismatch' warning
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: global.sym op.c pod/perldiag.pod proto.h sv.c t/comp/redef.t

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perlfaq6.pod b/pod/perlfaq6.pod
index 589d89e495..0adebd72fe 100644
--- a/pod/perlfaq6.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfaq6.pod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 =head1 NAME
 
-perlfaq6 - Regexps ($Revision: 1.14 $)
+perlfaq6 - Regexps ($Revision: 1.16 $, $Date: 1997/03/25 18:16:56 $)
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
@@ -143,6 +143,26 @@ Actually, you could do this if you don't mind reading the whole file into
     undef $/;
     @records = split /your_pattern/, <FH>;
 
+The Net::Telnet module (available from CPAN) has the capability to
+wait for a pattern in the input stream, or timeout if it doesn't
+appear within a certain time.
+
+    ## Create a file with three lines.
+    open FH, ">file";
+    print FH "The first line\nThe second line\nThe third line\n";
+    close FH;
+
+    ## Get a read/write filehandle to it.
+    $fh = new FileHandle "+<file";
+
+    ## Attach it to a "stream" object.
+    use Net::Telnet;
+    $file = new Net::Telnet (-fhopen => $fh);
+
+    ## Search for the second line and print out the third.
+    $file->waitfor('/second line\n/');
+    print $file->getline;
+
 =head2 How do I substitute case insensitively on the LHS, but preserving case on the RHS?
 
 It depends on what you mean by "preserving case".  The following
@@ -542,7 +562,7 @@ This is a big problem.
 
 Here are a few ways, all painful, to deal with it:
 
-   $martian =~ s/([A-Z][A-Z])/ $1 /g; # Make sure adjacent ``maritan'' bytes
+   $martian =~ s/([A-Z][A-Z])/ $1 /g; # Make sure adjacent ``martian'' bytes
                                       # are no longer adjacent.
    print "found GX!\n" if $martian =~ /GX/;