X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pod%2Fperlfaq2.pod;h=4cd945be5c486fa47faf0dfe9a2928679d55ee74;hb=5a17876fec93d2d9eeb8689d271a67aeaf8a99e2;hp=62aa5dd7fd3ee94b0fdb51e104291e98edd86679;hpb=a6dd486b7feb5918da837e5ad585c8ce954f9bbf;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/pod/perlfaq2.pod b/pod/perlfaq2.pod index 62aa5dd..4cd945b 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq2.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq2.pod @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ related matters. The standard release of Perl (the one maintained by the perl development team) is distributed only in source code form. You can find this at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/latest.tar.gz , which -in standard Internet format (a gzipped archive in POSIX tar format). +is in a standard Internet format (a gzipped archive in POSIX tar format). Perl builds and runs on a bewildering number of platforms. Virtually all known and current Unix derivatives are supported (Perl's native @@ -80,8 +80,8 @@ part of the output of % perl -V -You might also want to check out L. +You might also want to check out +L. =head2 I grabbed the sources and tried to compile but gdbm/dynamic loading/malloc/linking/... failed. How do I make it work? @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ CPAN/path/... is a naming convention for files available on CPAN sites. CPAN indicates the base directory of a CPAN mirror, and the rest of the path is the path from that directory to the file. For instance, if you're using ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN -as your CPAN site, the file CPAN/misc/japh file is downloadable as +as your CPAN site, the file CPAN/misc/japh is downloadable as ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/misc/japh . Considering that there are hundreds of existing modules in the @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ useful. Your mileage may (but, we hope, probably won't) vary. Recommended books on (or mostly on) Perl follow. -=over +=over 4 =item References @@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ To get the best performance, pick a site from the list below and use it to grab the complete list of mirror sites. From there you can find the quickest site for you. Remember, the following list is I the complete list of CPAN mirrors -(the complete list contains 136 sites as of July 2000): +(the complete list contains 161 sites as of January 2001): http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ http://www.cpan.org/CPAN/