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diff --git a/Porting/Glossary b/Porting/Glossary
index 4cd0099..c71c199 100644
--- a/Porting/Glossary
+++ b/Porting/Glossary
@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ bin (bin.U):
 	is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using
 	this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution.
 
+bincompat3 (bincompat3.U):
+	This variable contains y if Perl 5.004 should be binary-compatible
+	with Perl 5.003.
+
 byteorder (byteorder.U):
 	This variable holds the byte order. In the following, larger digits
 	indicate more significance.  The variable byteorder is either 4321
@@ -133,6 +137,11 @@ d_bcopy (d_bcopy.U):
 	This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BCOPY symbol if
 	the bcopy() routine is available to copy strings.
 
+d_bincompat3 (bincompat3.U):
+	This variable conditionally defines BINCOMPAT3 so that embed.h
+	can take special action if Perl 5.004 should be binary-compatible
+	with Perl 5.003.
+
 d_bsdgetpgrp (d_getpgrp.U):
 	This variable conditionally defines USE_BSD_GETPGRP if
 	getpgrp needs one arguments whereas USG one needs none.
@@ -272,10 +281,20 @@ d_fsetpos (d_fsetpos.U):
 	This variable conditionally defines HAS_FSETPOS if fsetpos() is
 	available to set the file position indicator.
 
+d_ftime (d_ftime.U):
+	This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FTIME symbol, which
+	indicates that the ftime() routine exists.  The ftime() routine is
+	basically a sub-second accuracy clock.
+
 d_gethent (d_gethent.U):
 	This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETHOSTENT if gethostent() is
 	available to dup file descriptors.
 
+d_gettimeod (d_ftime.U):
+	This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY symbol, which
+	indicates that the gettimeofday() system call exists (to obtain a
+	sub-second accuracy clock).
+
 d_getlogin (d_getlogin.U):
 	This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETLOGIN symbol, which
 	indicates to the C program that the getlogin() routine is available
@@ -312,6 +331,11 @@ d_index (d_strchr.U):
 	This variable conditionally defines HAS_INDEX if index() and
 	rindex() are available for string searching.
 
+d_inetaton (d_inetaton.U):
+	This variable conditionally defines the HAS_INET_ATON symbol, which
+	indicates to the C program that the inet_aton() function is available
+	to parse IP address "dotted-quad" strings.
+
 d_isascii (d_isascii.U):
 	This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISASCII constant,
 	which indicates to the C program that isascii() is available.
@@ -483,6 +507,11 @@ d_safemcpy (d_safemcpy.U):
 	This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SAFE_MEMCPY symbol if
 	the memcpy() routine can do overlapping copies.
 
+d_sanemcmp (d_sanemcmp.U):
+	This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SANE_MEMCMP symbol if
+	the memcpy() routine is available and can be used to compare relative
+	magnitudes of chars with their high bits set.
+
 d_seekdir (d_readdir.U):
 	This variable conditionally defines HAS_SEEKDIR if seekdir() is
 	available.
@@ -643,6 +672,21 @@ d_strerror (d_strerror.U):
 	This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRERROR if strerror() is
 	available to translate error numbers to strings.
 
+d_strtod (d_strtod.U):
+	This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOD symbol, which
+	indicates to the C program that the strtod() routine is available
+	to provide better numeric string conversion than atof().
+
+d_strtol (d_strtol.U):
+	This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOL symbol, which
+	indicates to the C program that the strtol() routine is available
+	to provide better numeric string conversion than atoi() and friends.
+
+d_strtoul (d_strtoul.U):
+	This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOUL symbol, which
+	indicates to the C program that the strtoul() routine is available
+	to provide conversion of strings to unsigned long.
+
 d_strxfrm (d_strxfrm.U):
 	This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRXFRM if strxfrm() is
 	available to transform strings.
@@ -1069,6 +1113,11 @@ lns (lns.U):
 	symbolic links (if they are supported).  It can be used
 	in the Makefile. It is either 'ln -s' or 'ln'
 
+longsize (intsize.U):
+	This variable contains the value of the LONGSIZE symbol,
+	which indicates to the C program how many bytes there are
+	in a long integer.
+
 lseektype (lseektype.U):
 	This variable defines lseektype to be something like off_t, long, 
 	or whatever type is used to declare lseek offset's type in the
@@ -1175,6 +1224,11 @@ path_sep (Unix.U):
 perladmin (perladmin.U):
 	Electronic mail address of the perl5 administrator.
 
+perlpath (perlpath.U):
+	This variable contains the eventual value of the PERLPATH symbol,
+	which contains the name of the perl interpreter to be used in
+	shell scripts and in the "eval 'exec'" idiom.
+
 prefix (prefix.U):
 	This variable holds the name of the directory below which the
 	user will install the package.  Usually, this is /usr/local, and
@@ -1239,6 +1293,11 @@ shmattype (d_shmat.U):
 	This symbol contains the type of pointer returned by shmat().
 	It can be 'void *' or 'char *'.
 
+shortsize (intsize.U):
+	This variable contains the value of the SHORTSIZE symbol,
+	which indicates to the C program how many bytes there are
+	in a short integer.
+
 shrpenv (libperl.U):
 	If the user builds a shared libperl.so, then we need to tell the
 	'perl' executable where it will be able to find the installed libperl.so. 
@@ -1318,7 +1377,7 @@ startperl (startperl.U):
 	script to make sure (hopefully) that it runs with perl and not some
 	shell. Of course, that leading line must be followed by the classical
 	perl idiom:
-		eval 'exec perl -S $0 "$@"'
+		eval 'exec /usr/bin/perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
 			if $running_under_some_shell;
 	to guarantee perl startup should the shell execute the script. Note
 	that this magic incatation is not understood by csh.