cleanup AVAILABILITY and mention binaries

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5516

diff --git a/pod/perl.pod b/pod/perl.pod
index 474b416..c74dd2f 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perl.pod
+++ b/pod/perl.pod
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ platforms are able to build Perl from the standard source code
 distribution available at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/index.html
 
        AIX
-       DOS DJGPP 1)
+       DOS DJGPP       1)
        FreeBSD
        HP-UX
        IRIX
@@ -256,10 +256,11 @@ distribution available at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/index.html
         3) formerly known as Digital UNIX and before that DEC OSF/1
         4) compilers: Borland, Cygwin, Mingw32 EGCS/GCC, VC++
 
-The following platforms worked for the previous major release (5.005_03
-being the latest maintenance release of that, as of March 2000), but we
-did not manage to test these in time for the 5.6.0 release of Perl.
-There is a very good chance that these will work just fine with 5.6.0.
+The following platforms worked for the previous major release
+(5.005_04 being the latest maintenance release of that, as of early
+March 2000), but be did not manage to test these in time for the 5.6.0
+release of Perl.  There is a very good chance that these will work
+just fine with 5.6.0.
 
        A/UX
        BeOS
@@ -277,10 +278,10 @@ There is a very good chance that these will work just fine with 5.6.0.
        SVR4
        Ultrix
 
-The following platform worked for the previous major release (5.005_03
-being the latest maintenance release of that, as of March 2000).
+The following platform worked for the previous major release (5.005_04
+being the latest maintenance release of that, as of early March 2000).
 However, standardization on UTF-8 as the internal string representation
-in 5.6.0 has introduced incompatibilities with this EBCDIC platform.
+in 5.6.0 has introduced incompatibilities in this EBCDIC platform.
 Support for this platform may be enabled in a future release:
 
        OS390   1)
@@ -341,7 +342,7 @@ Support for the following platform is planned for a future Perl release:
        Netware
 
 The following platforms have their own source code distributions and
-binaries available via http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html :
+binaries available via http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html:
 
                                Perl release
 
@@ -350,7 +351,7 @@ binaries available via http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html :
        Tandem Guardian         5.004
 
 The following platforms have only binaries available via
-http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html :
+http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html:
 
                                Perl release
 
@@ -358,6 +359,11 @@ http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html :
        AOS                     5.002
        LynxOS                  5.004_02
 
+Although we do suggest that you always build your own Perl from the
+source code, both for maximal configurability and for security,
+in case you are in a hurry you can check the URL
+http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html for binary releases.
+
 =head1 ENVIRONMENT
 
 See L<perlrun>.