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diff --git a/pod/perlport.pod b/pod/perlport.pod
index 2573696..7a500f8 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlport.pod
+++ b/pod/perlport.pod
@@ -870,7 +870,8 @@ Even though VOS allows the slash character to appear in object
 names, because the VOS port of Perl interprets it as a pathname
 delimiting character, VOS files, directories, or links whose names
 contain a slash character cannot be processed.  Such files must be
-renamed before they can be processed by Perl.
+renamed before they can be processed by Perl.  Note that VOS limits
+file names to 32 or fewer characters.
 
 The following C functions are unimplemented on VOS, and any attempt by
 Perl to use them will result in a fatal error message and an immediate
@@ -883,7 +884,7 @@ The value of C<$^O> on VOS is "VOS".  To determine the architecture that
 you are running on without resorting to loading all of C<%Config> you
 can examine the content of the C<@INC> array like so:
 
-    if (grep(/VOS/, @INC)) {
+    if ($^O =~ /VOS/) {
         print "I'm on a Stratus box!\n";
     } else {
         print "I'm not on a Stratus box!\n";
@@ -894,13 +895,13 @@ can examine the content of the C<@INC> array like so:
         print "This box is a Stratus XA/R!\n";
 
     } elsif (grep(/7100/, @INC)) {
-        print "This box is a Stratus HP 7100 or 8000!\n";
+        print "This box is a Stratus HP 7100 or 8xxx!\n";
 
     } elsif (grep(/8000/, @INC)) {
-        print "This box is a Stratus HP 8000!\n";
+        print "This box is a Stratus HP 8xxx!\n";
 
     } else {
-        print "This box is a Stratus 68K...\n";
+        print "This box is a Stratus 68K!\n";
     }
 
 Also see:
@@ -925,10 +926,10 @@ the message body to majordomo@list.stratagy.com.
 Recent versions of Perl have been ported to platforms such as OS/400 on
 AS/400 minicomputers as well as OS/390, VM/ESA, and BS2000 for S/390
 Mainframes.  Such computers use EBCDIC character sets internally (usually
-Character Code Set ID 00819 for OS/400 and 1047 for S/390 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 system (BS2000 is supported in perl 5.006 and greater).
+Character Code Set ID 0037 for OS/400 and either 1047 or POSIX-BC for S/390
+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).
 
 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.
@@ -1401,11 +1402,11 @@ Not implemented. (Plan9, Win32, S<RISC OS>)
 
 =item endpwent
 
-Not implemented. (S<Mac OS>, Win32, VM/ESA)
+Not implemented. (S<Mac OS>, MPE/iX, VM/ESA, Win32)
 
 =item endgrent
 
-Not implemented. (S<Mac OS>, Win32, VMS, S<RISC OS>, VM/ESA)
+Not implemented. (S<Mac OS>, MPE/iX, S<RISC OS>, VM/ESA, VMS, Win32)
 
 =item endhostent
 
@@ -1462,11 +1463,14 @@ the process.  (Win32)
 
 =item link OLDFILE,NEWFILE
 
-Not implemented. (S<Mac OS>, Win32, VMS, S<RISC OS>)
+Not implemented. (S<Mac OS>, MPE/iX, VMS, S<RISC OS>)
 
 Link count not updated because hard links are not quite that hard
 (They are sort of half-way between hard and soft links). (AmigaOS)
 
+Hard links are implemented on Win32 (Windows NT and Windows 2000)
+under NTFS only.
+
 =item lstat FILEHANDLE
 
 =item lstat EXPR
@@ -1494,7 +1498,7 @@ Not implemented. (S<Mac OS>, Win32, VMS, Plan9, S<RISC OS>, VOS)
 The C<|> variants are supported only if ToolServer is installed.
 (S<Mac OS>)
 
-open to C<|-> and C<-|> are unsupported. (S<Mac OS>, Win32, S<RISC OS>)
+open to C<|E<45>> and C<-|> are unsupported. (S<Mac OS>, Win32, S<RISC OS>)
 
 =item pipe READHANDLE,WRITEHANDLE
 
@@ -1522,6 +1526,10 @@ Only reliable on sockets. (S<RISC OS>)
 
 Not implemented. (S<Mac OS>, Win32, VMS, S<RISC OS>, VOS)
 
+=item setgrent
+
+Not implemented. (MPE/iX, Win32)
+
 =item setpgrp PID,PGRP
 
 Not implemented. (S<Mac OS>, Win32, VMS, S<RISC OS>, VOS)
@@ -1530,6 +1538,10 @@ Not implemented. (S<Mac OS>, Win32, VMS, S<RISC OS>, VOS)
 
 Not implemented. (S<Mac OS>, Win32, VMS, S<RISC OS>, VOS)
 
+=item setpwent
+
+Not implemented. (MPE/iX, Win32)
+
 =item setsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME,OPTVAL
 
 Not implemented. (S<Mac OS>, Plan9)
@@ -1663,6 +1675,10 @@ Not useful. (S<RISC OS>)
 
 =over 4
 
+=item v1.45, 20 December 1999
+
+Small changes from 5.005_63 distribution, more changes to EBCDIC info.
+
 =item v1.44, 19 July 1999
 
 A bunch of updates from Peter Prymmer for C<$^O> values,
@@ -1756,6 +1772,7 @@ Chris Nandor E<lt>pudge@pobox.comE<gt>,
 Matthias Neeracher E<lt>neeri@iis.ee.ethz.chE<gt>,
 Gary Ng E<lt>71564.1743@CompuServe.COME<gt>,
 Tom Phoenix E<lt>rootbeer@teleport.comE<gt>,
+AndrE<eacute> Pirard E<lt>A.Pirard@ulg.ac.beE<gt>,
 Peter Prymmer E<lt>pvhp@forte.comE<gt>,
 Hugo van der Sanden E<lt>hv@crypt0.demon.co.ukE<gt>,
 Gurusamy Sarathy E<lt>gsar@activestate.comE<gt>,
@@ -1769,4 +1786,4 @@ E<lt>pudge@pobox.comE<gt>.
 
 =head1 VERSION
 
-Version 1.44, last modified 22 July 1999
+Version 1.45, last modified 20 December 1999