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| author | Paul Green <Paul.Green@stratus.com> | 2002-04-22 12:02:00 -0400 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-04-22 19:51:29 +0000 |
| commit | cc07ed0b762cfe4793134fb72f23a0831ec3e737 (patch) | |
| tree | 0a69cf83ab32b91253c9300423c2d5aecd767319 /pod | |
| parent | 97b8cedb5375c44d373941f70e3dfb58921f575c (diff) | |
| download | perl-cc07ed0b762cfe4793134fb72f23a0831ec3e737.tar.gz | |
update VOS-specific pod files
Message-Id: <200204222002.QAA07350@mailhub1.stratus.com>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@16087
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlport.pod | 25 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlport.pod b/pod/perlport.pod index e81e146ae7..16237ca6cf 100644 --- a/pod/perlport.pod +++ b/pod/perlport.pod @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ This information should not be considered complete; it includes possibly transient information about idiosyncrasies of some of the ports, almost all of which are in a state of constant evolution. Thus, this material should be considered a perpetual work in progress -(<IMG SRC="yellow_sign.gif" ALT="Under Construction">). +(C<< <IMG SRC="yellow_sign.gif" ALT="Under Construction"> >>). =head1 ISSUES @@ -1024,12 +1024,12 @@ Perl on VOS is discussed in F<README.vos> in the perl distribution (installed as L<perlvos>). Perl on VOS can accept either VOS- or Unix-style file specifications as in either of the following: - $ perl -ne "print if /perl_setup/i" >system>notices - $ perl -ne "print if /perl_setup/i" /system/notices + C<< $ perl -ne "print if /perl_setup/i" >system>notices >> + C<< $ perl -ne "print if /perl_setup/i" /system/notices >> or even a mixture of both as in: - $ perl -ne "print if /perl_setup/i" >system/notices + C<< $ perl -ne "print if /perl_setup/i" >system/notices >> Even though VOS allows the slash character to appear in object names, because the VOS port of Perl interprets it as a pathname @@ -1038,11 +1038,12 @@ contain a slash character cannot be processed. Such files must be renamed before they can be processed by Perl. Note that VOS limits file names to 32 or fewer characters. -See F<README.vos> for restrictions that apply when Perl is built -with the alpha version of VOS POSIX.1 support. - -Perl on VOS is built without any extensions and does not support -dynamic loading. +Perl on VOS can be built using two different compilers and two different +versions of the POSIX runtime. The recommended method for building full +Perl is with the GNU C compiler and the generally-available version of +VOS POSIX support. See F<README.vos> (installed as L<perlvos>) for +restrictions that apply when Perl is built using the VOS Standard C +compiler or the alpha version of VOS POSIX support. The value of C<$^O> on VOS is "VOS". To determine the architecture that you are running on without resorting to loading all of C<%Config> you @@ -1074,7 +1075,7 @@ Also see: =item * -F<README.vos> +F<README.vos> (installed as L<perlvos>) =item * @@ -1082,12 +1083,12 @@ The VOS mailing list. There is no specific mailing list for Perl on VOS. You can post comments to the comp.sys.stratus newsgroup, or subscribe to the general -Stratus mailing list. Send a letter with "Subscribe Info-Stratus" in +Stratus mailing list. Send a letter with "subscribe Info-Stratus" in the message body to majordomo@list.stratagy.com. =item * -VOS Perl on the web at http://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/vos.html +VOS Perl on the web at http://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/posix/posix.html =back |