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diff --git a/lib/PerlIO.pm b/lib/PerlIO.pm
index 148a5a8..bb678a6 100644
--- a/lib/PerlIO.pm
+++ b/lib/PerlIO.pm
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 package PerlIO;
 
+our $VERSION = '1.00';
+
 # Map layer name to package that defines it
 my %alias = (encoding => 'Encode');
 
@@ -39,8 +41,8 @@ PerlIO - On demand loader for PerlIO layers and root of PerlIO::* name space
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
-When an undefined layer 'foo' is encountered in an C<open> or C<binmode> layer
-specification then C code performs the equivalent of:
+When an undefined layer 'foo' is encountered in an C<open> or
+C<binmode> layer specification then C code performs the equivalent of:
 
   use PerlIO 'foo';
 
@@ -99,7 +101,7 @@ and then read it back in.
 =item raw
 
 A pseudo-layer which performs two functions (which is messy, but
-necessary to maintain compatibility with non-PerlIO builds of perl
+necessary to maintain compatibility with non-PerlIO builds of Perl
 and their way things have been documented elsewhere).
 
 Firstly it forces the file handle to be considered binary at that
@@ -112,14 +114,15 @@ layer specification.  Thus:
 
 Forces the use of C<perlio> layer even if the platform default, or
 C<use open> default is something else (such as ":encoding(iso-8859-7)")
-which would interfere with binary nature of the stream.
+(the C<:encoding> requires C<use Encode>) which would interfere with
+binary nature of the stream.
 
 =back
 
 =head2 Defaults and how to override them
 
-If the platform is MS-DOS like and normally does CRLF to "\n" translation
-for text files then the default layers are :
+If the platform is MS-DOS like and normally does CRLF to "\n"
+translation for text files then the default layers are :
 
   unix crlf