=item *
Input library and path specifications are accepted with or without the
-C<-l> and C<-L> prefices used by Unix linkers. If neither prefix is
+C<-l> and C<-L> prefixes used by Unix linkers. If neither prefix is
present, a token is considered a directory to search if it is in fact
a directory, and a library to search for otherwise. Authors who wish
their extensions to be portable to Unix or OS/2 should use the Unix
Wherever possible, shareable images are preferred to object libraries,
and object libraries to plain object files. In accordance with VMS
naming conventions, ext() looks for files named I<lib>shr and I<lib>rtl;
-it also looks for I<lib>lib and libI<lib> to accomodate Unix conventions
+it also looks for I<lib>lib and libI<lib> to accommodate Unix conventions
used in some ported software.
=item *
=item *
Input library and path specifications are accepted with or without the
-C<-l> and C<-L> prefices used by Unix linkers.
+C<-l> and C<-L> prefixes used by Unix linkers.
An entry of the form C<-La:\foo> specifies the C<a:\foo> directory to look
for the libraries that follow.
be appended to any entries that are not directories and don't already have
the suffix.
-Note that the C<-L> and <-l> prefixes are B<not required>, but authors
+Note that the C<-L> and C<-l> prefixes are B<not required>, but authors
who wish their extensions to be portable to Unix or OS/2 should use the
prefixes, since the Unix-OS/2 version of ext() requires them.