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author | Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com> | 2002-06-17 14:50:35 +0000 |
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committer | Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com> | 2002-06-17 14:50:35 +0000 |
commit | 1cbfc93d1589e4f5f6103e097177be6f791b2cb2 (patch) | |
tree | e61e2f2736138e91ea813b5aee291f3ac147c1e6 /pod/perlrun.pod | |
parent | aca0daca701f7dcdb767d1bc406a8942960007bc (diff) | |
download | perl-1cbfc93d1589e4f5f6103e097177be6f791b2cb2.tar.gz |
Integrate mainline
p4raw-id: //depot/perlio@17274
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diff --git a/pod/perlrun.pod b/pod/perlrun.pod index 60c7929566..2531838995 100644 --- a/pod/perlrun.pod +++ b/pod/perlrun.pod @@ -909,19 +909,21 @@ C<:perlio> will insert a C<:unix> layer below itself to do low level IO. =item :raw +B<Note that the explicit use of the C<:raw> layer is deprecated.> + Arranges for all accesses go straight to the lowest level layer provided by the configration. That is it strips off any layers above that layer. (The intent - unless layers are then pushed on top again - is to make perl's C<read> behave like C<sysread>.) -Not really useful in PERLIO environment variable, instead just use C<:unix> -layer explicitly. +Not really useful in PERLIO environment variable, instead just use +C<:unix> layer explicitly. -In perl5.6 and some books the C<:raw> layer (also called a discipline) is -documented as the inverse of the C<:crlf> layer. That is not really the case. -If you want UNIX line endings on a platform that normaly does CRLF translation -the appropriate thing to do is to add C<:perlio> to PERLIO environment -variable. +In Perl 5.6 and some books the C<:raw> layer (also called a discipline) +is documented as the inverse of the C<:crlf> layer. That is not really +the case. If you want UNIX line endings on a platform that normally +does CRLF translation the appropriate thing to do is to add C<:perlio> +to PERLIO environment variable. =item :stdio |