X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pod%2Fperlfaq.pod;h=2213a0f2f016a91d336f3cd1333918f899e9e4ff;hb=95d94a4f85cab4045e157acc1a0d6b2096eecea2;hp=8db316c24baa44428cbdf667c34b711f08dd5ca0;hpb=68dc074516a6859e3424b48d1647bcb08b1a1a7d;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/pod/perlfaq.pod b/pod/perlfaq.pod index 8db316c..2213a0f 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq.pod @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ =head1 NAME -perlfaq - frequently asked questions about Perl ($Date: 1997/03/17 22:17:56 $) +perlfaq - frequently asked questions about Perl ($Date: 1997/04/24 22:46:06 $) =head1 DESCRIPTION @@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ at http://www.perl.com/perl/faq/ . =head2 How to contribute to this document You may mail corrections, additions, and suggestions to -perlfaq-suggestions@perl.com. Mail sent to the old perlfaq alias will -merely cause the FAQ to be sent to you. +perlfaq-suggestions@perl.com . Mail sent to the old perlfaq alias +will merely cause the FAQ to be sent to you. =head2 What will happen if you mail your Perl programming problems to the authors @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ Perl Porters. Copyright (c) 1997 Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington. All rights reserved. -=head2 Non-commercial Reproduction +=head2 Noncommercial Reproduction Permission is granted to distribute this document, in part or in full, via electronic means or printed copy providing that (1) that all credits @@ -124,6 +124,42 @@ in respect of this information or its use. =over 4 +=item 24/April/97 + +Style and whitespace changes from Chip, new question on reading one +character at a time from a terminal using POSIX from Tom. + +=item 23/April/97 + +Added http://www.oasis.leo.org/perl/ to L. Style fix to +L. Added floating point precision, fixed complex number +arithmetic, cross-references, caveat for Text::Wrap, alternative +answer for initial capitalizing, fixed incorrect regexp, added example +of Tie::IxHash to L. Added example of passing and storing +filehandles, added commify to L. Restored variable suicide, +and added mass commenting to L. Added Net::Telnet, fixed +backticks, added reader/writer pair to telnet question, added FindBin, +grouped module questions together in L. Expanded caveats +for the simple URL extractor, gave LWP example, added CGI security +question, expanded on the email address answer in L. + +=item 25/March/97 + +Added more info to the binary distribution section of L. +Added Net::Telnet to L. Fixed typos in L. Added +mail sending example to L. Added Merlyn's columns to +L. + +=item 18/March/97 + +Added the DATE to the NAME section, indicating which sections have +changed. + +Mentioned SIGPIPE and L in the forking open answer in +L. + +Fixed description of a regular expression in L. + =item 17/March/97 Version Various typos fixed throughout.