Integrate with perlio. (No changes, but that's okay.)

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 =head1 NAME
 
-perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.32 $, $Date: 1999/10/14 18:46:09 $)
+perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.3 $, $Date: 2001/11/09 08:06:04 $)
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ third-party modules and extensions, designed for everything from
 commercial database interfaces to keyboard/screen control to web
 walking and CGI scripts.  The master web site for CPAN is
 http://www.cpan.org/ and there is the CPAN Multiplexer at
-http://www.perl.com/CPAN/CPAN.html which will choose a mirror near you
+http://www.cpan.org/CPAN.html which will choose a mirror near you
 via DNS.  See http://www.perl.com/CPAN (without a slash at the
 end) for how this process works. Also, http://mirror.cpan.org/
 has a nice interface to the http://www.cpan.org/MIRRORED.BY
@@ -236,13 +236,18 @@ Llama book:
 If you're not an accidental programmer, but a more serious and
 possibly even degreed computer scientist who doesn't need as much
 hand-holding as we try to provide in the Llama, please check out the
-delightful book, I<Perl: The Programmer's Companion>, written by Nigel
-Chapman.
+delightful book
 
-If you are more at home in Windows, I<Learning Perl on Win32 Systems>
-(the "Gecko Book") is available (unfortunately rather dated).
+    Perl: The Programmer's Companion
+        by Nigel Chapman
+        ISBN 0-471-97563-X [1997, 3rd printing Spring 1998]
+        http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/97563-X.htm
+        http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/chapman/perl/perltpc.html (errata etc)
 
-    Learning Perl on Win32 Systems
+If you are more at home in Windows the following is available
+(though unfortunately rather dated).
+
+    Learning Perl on Win32 Systems (the "Gecko Book")
        by Randal L. Schwartz, Erik Olson, and Tom Christiansen,
            with foreword by Larry Wall
        ISBN 1-56592-324-3 [1st edition August 1997]
@@ -300,8 +305,9 @@ Recommended books on (or mostly on) Perl follow.
 
     Perl: The Programmer's Companion
        by Nigel Chapman
-       ISBN 0-471-97563-X  [1st edition October 1997]
-       http://catalog.wiley.com/title.cgi?isbn=047197563X
+       ISBN 0-471-97563-X [1997, 3rd printing Spring 1998]
+        http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/97563-X.htm
+        http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/chapman/perl/perltpc.html (errata etc)
 
     Cross-Platform Perl
        by Eric Foster-Johnson
@@ -360,20 +366,27 @@ Recommended books on (or mostly on) Perl follow.
 
 =head2 Perl in Magazines
 
-The first and only periodical devoted to All Things Perl, I<The
-Perl Journal> contains tutorials, demonstrations, case studies,
+The first and only periodical devoted to All Things Perl,
+I<The Perl Journal> contains tutorials, demonstrations, case studies,
 announcements, contests, and much more.  I<TPJ> has columns on web
 development, databases, Win32 Perl, graphical programming, regular
-expressions, and networking, and sponsored the Obfuscated Perl
-Contest. For more details on I<The Perl Journal>, see
-http://www.tpj.com/
-
-Beyond this, magazines that frequently carry high-quality articles
-on Perl are I<Web Techniques> (see http://www.webtechniques.com/),
-I<Performance Computing> (http://www.performance-computing.com/), and Usenix's
-newsletter/magazine to its members, I<login:>, at http://www.usenix.org/.
-Randal's Web Techniques columns are available on the web at
-http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/ .
+expressions, and networking, and sponsors the Obfuscated Perl Contest
+and the Perl Poetry Contests.  As of mid-2001, the dead tree version
+of TPJ will be published as a quarterly supplement of SysAdmin
+magazine ( http://www.sysadmin.com/ ) For more details on TPJ,
+see http://www.tpj.com/
+
+Beyond this, magazines that frequently carry quality articles on
+Perl are I<Web Techniques> ( http://www.webtechniques.com/ ),
+I<Unix Review> ( http://www.unixreview.com/ ),
+I<Linux Magazine> ( http://www.linuxmagazine.com/ ),
+and Usenix's newsletter/magazine to its members, I<login:>
+( http://www.usenix.org/ )
+
+The Perl columns of Randal L. Schwartz are available on the web at
+http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/ ,
+http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/UnixReview/ , and
+http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/ .
 
 =head2 Perl on the Net: FTP and WWW Access
 
@@ -427,7 +440,7 @@ in releases and comes in well-defined packages. There is a very large
 user community and an extensive literature.  The comp.lang.perl.*
 newsgroups and several of the mailing lists provide free answers to your
 questions in near real-time.  Perl has traditionally been supported by
-Larry, scores of software designers and developers, and myriads of
+Larry, scores of software designers and developers, and myriad
 programmers, all working for free to create a useful thing to make life
 better for everyone.
 
@@ -511,10 +524,8 @@ and there are many other sub-domains for special topics, such as
 Copyright (c) 1997-2001 Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington.
 All rights reserved.
 
-When included as an integrated part of the Standard Distribution
-of Perl or of its documentation (printed or otherwise), this works is
-covered under Perl's Artistic License.  For separate distributions of
-all or part of this FAQ outside of that, see L<perlfaq>.
+This documentation is free; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+under the same terms as Perl itself.
 
 Irrespective of its distribution, all code examples here are in the public
 domain.  You are permitted and encouraged to use this code and any