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authorChris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>1998-12-31 04:06:48 -0500
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>1998-12-31 14:15:04 +0000
commit9b63e9ecb99b38390442c44361915d503175016f (patch)
treebb90cc6feb7eb0dd05f5ac34b1fe2e97baa2ab80 /pod/perlport.pod
parent4f19785bce4da39a768aa6210f1f97ab4c0600dd (diff)
downloadperl-9b63e9ecb99b38390442c44361915d503175016f.tar.gz
Re: [PATCH] perlport.pod 1.38
To: jhi@iki.fi Cc: perl5-porters@perl.org Message-Id: <v04020a1db2b1352ec92a@[192.168.0.77]> p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2547
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlport.pod b/pod/perlport.pod
index 7a03c12998..d6eb10b2d2 100644
--- a/pod/perlport.pod
+++ b/pod/perlport.pod
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ LPT:).
S<Mac OS> uses C<:> as a path separator instead of C</>.
-The filesystem may not support neither hard links (C<link()>) nor
+The filesystem may support neither hard links (C<link()>) nor
symbolic links (C<symlink()>, C<readlink()>, C<lstat()>).
The filesystem may not support neither access timestamp nor change
@@ -840,7 +840,7 @@ an effect on what happens with some perl functions (such as C<chr>,
C<pack>, C<print>, C<printf>, C<ord>, C<sort>, C<sprintf>, C<unpack>), as
well as bit-fiddling with ASCII constants using operators like C<^>, C<&>
and C<|>, not to mention dealing with socket interfaces to ASCII computers
-(see L<"NEWLINES">).
+(see L<Newlines>).
Fortunately, most web servers for the mainframe will correctly translate
the C<\n> in the following statement to its ASCII equivalent (note that
@@ -1462,8 +1462,8 @@ of a child Unix program will exists. Mileage B<will> vary. (S<RISC OS>)
Far from being POSIX compliant. Because there may be no underlying
/bin/sh tries to work around the problem by forking and execing the
-first token in its argument string. Handles basic redirection ("<" or
-">") on its own behalf. (MiNT)
+first token in its argument string. Handles basic redirection
+("E<lt>" or "E<gt>") on its own behalf. (MiNT)
=item times
@@ -1494,8 +1494,8 @@ should not be held open elsewhere. (Win32)
Returns undef where unavailable, as of version 5.005.
-C<umask()> works but the correct permissions are only set when the file is
-finally close()d.
+C<umask()> works but the correct permissions are only set when the file
+is finally close()d. (AmigaOS)
=item utime LIST
@@ -1524,6 +1524,10 @@ Not useful. (S<RISC OS>)
=over 4
+=item v1.38, 31 December 1998
+
+More changes from Jarkko.
+
=item v1.37, 19 December 1998
More minor changes. Merge two separate version 1.35 documents.
@@ -1592,5 +1596,4 @@ E<lt>pudge@pobox.comE<gt>.
=head1 VERSION
-Version 1.37, last modified 19 December 1998
-
+Version 1.38, last modified 31 December 1998