"\n", and "\n" on output becomes CRLF.
These are just the most common definitions of C<\n> and C<\r> in Perl.
-There may well be others. For example, on an EBCDIC implementation such
-as z/OS or OS/400 the above material is similar to "Unix" but the code
-numbers change:
+There may well be others. For example, on an EBCDIC implementation
+such as z/OS (OS/390) or OS/400 (using the ILE, the PASE is ASCII-based)
+the above material is similar to "Unix" but the code numbers change:
LF eq \025 eq \x15 eq chr(21) eq CP-1047 21
LF eq \045 eq \x25 eq \cU eq chr(37) eq CP-0037 37
systems). On the mainframe perl currently works under the "Unix system
services for OS/390" (formerly known as OpenEdition), VM/ESA OpenEdition, or
the BS200 POSIX-BC system (BS2000 is supported in perl 5.6 and greater).
-See L<perlos390> for details.
+See L<perlos390> for details. Note that for OS/400 there is also a port of
+Perl 5.8.1/5.9.0 or later to the PASE which is ASCII-based (as opposed to
+ILE which is EBCDIC-based), see L<perlos400>.
As of R2.5 of USS for OS/390 and Version 2.3 of VM/ESA these Unix
sub-systems do not support the C<#!> shebang trick for script invocation.
=head1 Supported Platforms
-As of June 2002 (the Perl release 5.8.0), the following platforms are
+As of July 2002 (the Perl release 5.8.0), the following platforms are
able to build Perl from the standard source code distribution
available at http://www.cpan.org/src/index.html
OpenBSD
OpenVMS (VMS)
OS/2
+ OS/400 (using the PASE) (since Perl 5.8.1/5.9.0)
PowerUX
POSIX-BC (BS2000)
QNX
Perl release
- OS/400 5.005_02
+ OS/400 (ILE) 5.005_02
Tandem Guardian 5.004
The following platforms have only binaries available via
L<perlce>, L<perlcygwin>, L<perldgux>, L<perldos>, L<perlepoc>,
L<perlebcdic>, L<perlfreebsd>, L<perlhurd>, L<perlhpux>, L<perlirix>,
L<perlmachten>, L<perlmacos>, L<perlmint>, L<perlmpeix>,
-L<perlnetware>, L<perlos2>, L<perlos390>, L<perlplan9>, L<perlqnx>,
-L<perlsolaris>, L<perltru64>, L<perlunicode>, L<perlvmesa>,
-L<perlvms>, L<perlvos>, L<perlwin32>, and L<Win32>.
+L<perlnetware>, L<perlos2>, L<perlos390>, L<perlos400>,
+L<perlplan9>, L<perlqnx>, L<perlsolaris>, L<perltru64>,
+L<perlunicode>, L<perlvmesa>, L<perlvms>, L<perlvos>,
+L<perlwin32>, and L<Win32>.
=head1 AUTHORS / CONTRIBUTORS