perlfunc updates (against 55)

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / pod / perlport.pod

diff --git a/pod/perlport.pod b/pod/perlport.pod
index d6eb10b..c1a5483 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlport.pod
+++ b/pod/perlport.pod
@@ -148,6 +148,13 @@ And this example is actually better than the previous one even for Unix
 platforms, because now any C<\015>'s (C<\cM>'s) are stripped out
 (and there was much rejoicing).
 
+An important thing to remember is that functions that return data
+should translate newlines when appropriate.  Often one line of code
+will suffice:
+
+       $data =~ s/\015?\012/\n/g;
+       return $data;
+
 
 =head2 Numbers endianness and Width
 
@@ -570,7 +577,8 @@ Also see:
 =item The djgpp environment for DOS, C<http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/>
 
 =item The EMX environment for DOS, OS/2, etc. C<emx@iaehv.nl>,
-C<http://www.juge.com/bbs/Hobb.19.html>
+C<http://www.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/gnu/emx+gcc/index.html> or
+C<ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/emx>
 
 =item Build instructions for Win32, L<perlwin32>.
 
@@ -768,12 +776,12 @@ 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.
 
-The following C functions are unimplemented on VOS, any any attempt by
+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
-exit from Perl:  dup, do_aspawn, do_spawn, execlp, execl, execvp, fork,
-waitpid.  Once these functions become available in the VOS POSIX.1
-implementation, you can either recompile and rebind Perl, or you can
-download a newer port from ftp.stratus.com.
+exit from Perl:  dup, do_aspawn, do_spawn, fork, waitpid.  Once these
+functions become available in the VOS POSIX.1 implementation, you can
+either recompile and rebind Perl, or you can download a newer port from
+ftp.stratus.com.
 
 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
@@ -1524,6 +1532,11 @@ Not useful. (S<RISC OS>)
 
 =over 4
 
+=item v1.39, 11 February, 1999
+
+Changes from Jarkko and EMX URL fixes Michael Schwern.  Additional
+note about newlines added.
+
 =item v1.38, 31 December 1998
 
 More changes from Jarkko.
@@ -1588,6 +1601,7 @@ 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@umich.eduE<gt>,
 Paul J. Schinder E<lt>schinder@pobox.comE<gt>,
+Michael G Schwern E<lt>schwern@pobox.comE<gt>,
 Dan Sugalski E<lt>sugalskd@ous.eduE<gt>,
 Nathan Torkington E<lt>gnat@frii.comE<gt>.
 
@@ -1596,4 +1610,4 @@ E<lt>pudge@pobox.comE<gt>.
 
 =head1 VERSION
 
-Version 1.38, last modified 31 December 1998
+Version 1.39, last modified 11 February 1999