FAQ jumbo patch from tchrist.

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Subject: newest version of perlfaq9.pod
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 23:05:03 -0700

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2588

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perlfaq9.pod b/pod/perlfaq9.pod
index 1a5e61feee..46c487bea3 100644
--- a/pod/perlfaq9.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfaq9.pod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 =head1 NAME
 
-perlfaq9 - Networking ($Revision: 1.20 $, $Date: 1998/06/22 18:31:09 $)
+perlfaq9 - Networking ($Revision: 1.24 $, $Date: 1999/01/08 05:39:48 $)
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
@@ -77,8 +77,7 @@ stamp prepended.
 =head2 How do I remove HTML from a string?
 
 The most correct way (albeit not the fastest) is to use HTML::Parse
-from CPAN (part of the libwww-perl distribution, which is a must-have
-module for all web hackers).
+from CPAN (part of the HTML-Tree package on CPAN).
 
 Many folks attempt a simple-minded regular expression approach, like
 C<s/E<lt>.*?E<gt>//g>, but that fails in many cases because the tags
@@ -172,6 +171,7 @@ do this.  They work through proxies, and don't require lynx:
     getprint "http://www.sn.no/libwww-perl/";
 
     # or print ASCII from HTML from a URL
+    # also need HTML-Tree package from CPAN
     use LWP::Simple;
     use HTML::Parse;
     use HTML::FormatText;
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ In short, they're bad hacks.  Resist them at all costs.  Please do not be
 tempted to reinvent the wheel.  Instead, use the CGI.pm or CGI_Lite.pm
 (available from CPAN), or if you're trapped in the module-free land
 of perl1 .. perl4, you might look into cgi-lib.pl (available from
-http://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/web/form.html).
+http://cgi-lib.stanford.edu/cgi-lib/ ).
 
 Make sure you know whether to use a GET or a POST in your form.
 GETs should only be used for something that doesn't update the server.
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ Sys::Hostname module (which is part of the standard perl distribution),
 you can probably try using something like this:
 
     use Sys::Hostname;
-    $address = sprintf('%s@%s', (getpwuid($<))[0], hostname);
+    $address = sprintf('%s@%s', getpwuid($<), hostname);
 
 Company policies on mail address can mean that this generates addresses
 that the company's mail system will not accept, so you should ask for
@@ -411,7 +411,8 @@ Use the C<sendmail> program directly:
     To: Final Destination <you\@otherhost>
     Subject: A relevant subject line
 
-    Body of the message goes here, in as many lines as you like.
+    Body of the message goes here after the blank line
+    in as many lines as you like.
     EOF
     close(SENDMAIL)     or warn "sendmail didn't close nicely";
 
@@ -442,9 +443,8 @@ include queueing, MX records, and security.
 
 =head2 How do I read mail?
 
-Use the Mail::Folder module from CPAN
-(part of the MailFolder package) or the Mail::Internet module from
-CPAN (also part of the MailTools package).
+Use the Mail::Folder module from CPAN (part of the MailFolder package) or
+the Mail::Internet module from CPAN (also part of the MailTools package).
 
    # sending mail
     use Mail::Internet;
@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ give you the hostname after which you can find out the IP address
     use Socket;
     use Sys::Hostname;
     my $host = hostname();
-    my $addr = inet_ntoa(scalar(gethostbyname($name)) || 'localhost');
+    my $addr = inet_ntoa(scalar gethostbyname($host || 'localhost'));
 
 Probably the simplest way to learn your DNS domain name is to grok
 it out of /etc/resolv.conf, at least under Unix.  Of course, this
@@ -531,11 +531,12 @@ available from CPAN) is more complex but can put as well as fetch.
 
 A DCE::RPC module is being developed (but is not yet available), and
 will be released as part of the DCE-Perl package (available from
-CPAN).  No ONC::RPC module is known.
+CPAN).  The rpcgen suite, available from CPAN/authors/id/JAKE/, is
+an RPC stub generator and includes an RPC::ONC module.
 
 =head1 AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
 
-Copyright (c) 1997, 1998 Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington.
+Copyright (c) 1997-1999 Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington.
 All rights reserved.
 
 When included as part of the Standard Version of Perl, or as part of
@@ -550,3 +551,4 @@ are hereby placed into the public domain.  You are permitted and
 encouraged to use this code in your own programs for fun
 or for profit as you see fit.  A simple comment in the code giving
 credit would be courteous but is not required.
+