Suggested doc enhancement(?) to Exporter.pm

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / README.os390

diff --git a/README.os390 b/README.os390
index 578d5a3..3011ad6 100644 (file)
--- a/README.os390
+++ b/README.os390
@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@ about pod in pod/perlpod.pod or the short summary in the INSTALL file.
 
 =head1 NAME
 
-README.os390 - building and installing Perl for OS/390.
+README.os390 - building and installing Perl for OS/390 and z/OS
 
 =head1 SYNOPSIS
 
 This document will help you Configure, build, test and install Perl
-on OS/390 Unix System Services.
+on OS/390 (aka z/OS) Unix System Services.
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
@@ -21,11 +21,19 @@ the ones we've tested it on.
 You may need to carry out some system configuration tasks before
 running the Configure script for Perl.
 
+
+=head2 Tools
+
+The z/OS Unix Tools and Toys list may prove helpful and contains links
+to ports of much of the software helpful for building Perl.
+http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/unix/bpxa1toy.html
+
+
 =head2 Unpacking Perl distribution on OS/390
 
 Gunzip/gzip for OS/390 is discussed at:
 
-   http://www.s390.ibm.com/products/oe/bpxqp1.html
+  http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/unix/faq/bpxqp1.html
 
 to extract an ASCII tar archive on OS/390, try this:
 
@@ -44,10 +52,9 @@ The IBM document that described such USS system setup issues was
 SC28-1890-07 "OS/390 UNIX System Services Planning", in particular
 Chapter 6 on customizing the OE shell.
 
-GNU make for OS/390, which is recommended for the build of perl (as well as
-building CPAN modules and extensions), is available from:
-
-  http://www.mks.com/s390/gnu/index.htm
+GNU make for OS/390, which is recommended for the build of perl (as
+well as building CPAN modules and extensions), is available from the
+L</Tools>.
 
 Some people have reported encountering "Out of memory!" errors while
 trying to build Perl using GNU make binaries.  If you encounter such
@@ -253,16 +260,16 @@ Out of Memory!
 Recent perl test suite is quite memory hunrgy. In addition to the comments
 above on memory limitations it is also worth checking for _CEE_RUNOPTS
 in your environment. Perl now has (in miniperlmain.c) a C #pragma
-to set CEE run options, but the enviroment variable wins.
+to set CEE run options, but the environment variable wins.
 
-The C code ask for:
+The C code asks for:
 
  #pragma runopts(HEAP(2M,500K,ANYWHERE,KEEP,8K,4K) STACK(,,ANY,) ALL31(ON))
 
 The important parts of that are the second argument (the increment) to HEAP,
 and allowing the stack to be "Above the (16M) line". If the heap
-increment is too small then when perl (for example loading unicode/Name.pl) trys
-to create a "big" (400K+) string it cannot fit in a single segement
+increment is too small then when perl (for example loading unicode/Name.pl) tries
+to create a "big" (400K+) string it cannot fit in a single segment
 and you get "Out of Memory!" - even if there is still plenty of memory
 available.
 
@@ -386,7 +393,7 @@ Thanks to John Goodyear for dynamic loading help.
 
 L<INSTALL>, L<perlport>, L<perlebcdic>, L<ExtUtils::MakeMaker>.
 
-    http://www.mks.com/s390/gnu/index.htm
+    http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/unix/bpxa1toy.html
 
     http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg245944.html
 
@@ -423,6 +430,8 @@ release of Perl.
 
 This document was podified for the 5.005_03 release of Perl 11 March 1999.
 
+Updated 28 November 2001 for broken URLs.
+
 Updated 12 November 2000 for the 5.7.1 release of Perl.
 
 Updated 15 January 2001 for the 5.7.1 release of Perl.