[ID 20000602.005] [PATCH]5.6.0 (DOC) tiny change to perlsyn.pod

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

diff --git a/pod/perlrun.pod b/pod/perlrun.pod
index 8aa06fb..e105b00 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlrun.pod
+++ b/pod/perlrun.pod
@@ -130,13 +130,12 @@ distribution for more information).
 
 =item Win95/NT
 
-The Win95/NT installation, when using the Activeware port of Perl,
+The Win95/NT installation, when using the ActiveState installer for Perl,
 will modify the Registry to associate the F<.pl> extension with the perl
-interpreter.  If you install another port of Perl, including the one
-in the Win32 directory of the Perl distribution, then you'll have to
-modify the Registry yourself.  Note that this means you can no 
-longer tell the difference between an executable Perl program
-and a Perl library file.
+interpreter.  If you install Perl by other means (including building from
+the sources), you may have to modify the Registry yourself.  Note that
+this means you can no longer tell the difference between an executable
+Perl program and a Perl library file.
 
 =item Macintosh
 
@@ -576,10 +575,11 @@ enables rudimentary switch parsing for switches on the command
 line after the program name but before any filename arguments (or before
 a B<-->).  Any switch found there is removed from @ARGV and sets the
 corresponding variable in the Perl program.  The following program
-prints "true" if and only if the program is invoked with a B<-xyz> switch.
+prints "1" if the program is invoked with a B<-xyz> switch, and "abc"
+if it is invoked with B<-xyz=abc>.
 
     #!/usr/bin/perl -s
-    if ($xyz) { print "true\n" }
+    if ($xyz) { print "$xyz\n" }
 
 =item B<-S>
 
@@ -701,17 +701,16 @@ can disable or promote into fatal errors specific warnings using
 C<__WARN__> hooks, as described in L<perlvar> and L<perlfunc/warn>.
 See also L<perldiag> and L<perltrap>.  A new, fine-grained warning
 facility is also available if you want to manipulate entire classes
-of warnings; see L<warnings> (or better yet, its source code) about
-that.
+of warnings; see L<warnings> or L<perllexwarn>.
 
 =item B<-W>
 
-Enables all warnings regardless of 
+Enables all warnings regardless of C<no warnings> or C<$^W>.
 See L<perllexwarn>.
 
 =item B<-X>
 
-Disables all warnings regardless of 
+Disables all warnings regardless of C<use warnings> or C<$^W>.
 See L<perllexwarn>.
 
 =item B<-x> I<directory>
@@ -810,6 +809,18 @@ Relevant only if your perl executable was built with B<-DDEBUGGING>,
 this controls the behavior of global destruction of objects and other
 references.
 
+=item PERL_ROOT (specific to the VMS port)
+
+A translation concealed rooted logical name that contains perl and the
+logical device for the @INC path on VMS only.  Other logical names that
+affect perl on VMS include PERLSHR, PERL_ENV_TABLES, and 
+SYS$TIMEZONE_DIFFERENTIAL but are optional and discussed further in 
+L<perlvms> and in F<README.vms> in the Perl source distribution.
+
+=item SYS$LOGIN (specific to the VMS port)
+
+Used if chdir has no argument and HOME and LOGDIR are not set.
+
 =back
 
 Perl also has environment variables that control how Perl handles data