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diff --git a/pod/perlfaq8.pod b/pod/perlfaq8.pod
index 0d77dc1..0ac4620 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlfaq8.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfaq8.pod
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ For example:
     }
 
 However, because syscalls restart by default, you'll find that if
-you're in a "slow" call, such as E<lt>FHE<gt>, read(), connect(), or
+you're in a "slow" call, such as <FH>, read(), connect(), or
 wait(), that the only way to terminate them is by "longjumping" out;
 that is, by raising an exception.  See the time-out handler for a
 blocking flock() in L<perlipc/"Signals"> or chapter 6 of the Camel.
@@ -443,9 +443,8 @@ probably get away with setting an environment variable:
 
 If you want finer granularity than the 1 second that the sleep()
 function provides, the easiest way is to use the select() function as
-documented in L<perlfunc/"select">.  If your system has itimers and
-syscall() support, you can check out the old example in
-http://www.perl.com/CPAN/doc/misc/ancient/tutorial/eg/itimers.pl .
+documented in L<perlfunc/"select">.  Try the Time::HiRes and
+the BSD::Itimer modules (available from CPAN).
 
 =head2 How can I measure time under a second?
 
@@ -906,10 +905,6 @@ Background yourself like this:
 The Proc::Daemon module, available from CPAN, provides a function to
 perform these actions for you.
 
-=head2 How do I make my program run with sh and csh?
-
-See the F<eg/nih> script (part of the perl source distribution).
-
 =head2 How do I find out if I'm running interactively or not?
 
 Good question.  Sometimes C<-t STDIN> and C<-t STDOUT> can give clues,
@@ -976,7 +971,7 @@ sysopen():
     sysopen(FH, "/tmp/somefile", O_WRONLY|O_NDELAY|O_CREAT, 0644)
         or die "can't open /tmp/somefile: $!":
 
-   
+
 
 
 =head2 How do I install a module from CPAN?