=head1 NAME
-perlfaq - frequently asked questions about Perl ($Date: 1997/03/25 18:20:48 $)
+perlfaq - frequently asked questions about Perl ($Date: 1997/04/24 22:46:06 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
=head2 How to contribute to this document
You may mail corrections, additions, and suggestions to
-perlfaq-suggestions@perl.com. Mail sent to the old perlfaq alias will
-merely cause the FAQ to be sent to you.
+perlfaq-suggestions@perl.com . Mail sent to the old perlfaq alias
+will merely cause the FAQ to be sent to you.
=head2 What will happen if you mail your Perl programming problems to the authors
Copyright (c) 1997 Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington.
All rights reserved.
-=head2 Non-commercial Reproduction
+=head2 Noncommercial Reproduction
Permission is granted to distribute this document, in part or in full,
via electronic means or printed copy providing that (1) that all credits
=over 4
+=item 24/April/97
+
+Style and whitespace changes from Chip, new question on reading one
+character at a time from a terminal using POSIX from Tom.
+
+=item 23/April/97
+
+Added http://www.oasis.leo.org/perl/ to L<perlfaq2>. Style fix to
+L<perlfaq3>. Added floating point precision, fixed complex number
+arithmetic, cross-references, caveat for Text::Wrap, alternative
+answer for initial capitalizing, fixed incorrect regexp, added example
+of Tie::IxHash to L<perlfaq4>. Added example of passing and storing
+filehandles, added commify to L<perlfaq5>. Restored variable suicide,
+and added mass commenting to L<perlfaq7>. Added Net::Telnet, fixed
+backticks, added reader/writer pair to telnet question, added FindBin,
+grouped module questions together in L<perlfaq8>. Expanded caveats
+for the simple URL extractor, gave LWP example, added CGI security
+question, expanded on the email address answer in L<perlfaq9>.
+
=item 25/March/97
Added more info to the binary distribution section of L<perlfaq2>.
mail sending example to L<perlfaq9>. Added Merlyn's columns to
L<perlfaq2>.
-=item 18/March/97
+=item 18/March/97
Added the DATE to the NAME section, indicating which sections have
changed.