miscellaneous typos in 3 pods

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diff --git a/README.aix b/README.aix
index 6346a18..0b14612 100644 (file)
--- a/README.aix
+++ b/README.aix
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ compiled and/or runs.
 
 =head2 Compiling Perl 5 on AIX
 
-When compiling Perl, you must use an ANSI C compiler. AIX does not shif
+When compiling Perl, you must use an ANSI C compiler. AIX does not ship
 an ANSI compliant C-compiler with AIX by default, but binary builds of
 gcc for AIX are widely available.
 

diff --git a/pod/perlebcdic.pod b/pod/perlebcdic.pod
index 4ef5eca..12ea2f3 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlebcdic.pod
+++ b/pod/perlebcdic.pod
@@ -501,7 +501,8 @@ provide easy to use ASCII to EBCDIC operations that are also easily
 reversed.
 
 For example, to convert ASCII to code page 037 take the output of the second 
-column from the output of recipe 0 and use it in tr/// like so:
+column from the output of recipe 0 (modified to add \\ characters) and use 
+it in tr/// like so:
 
     $cp_037 = 
     '\000\001\002\003\234\011\206\177\227\215\216\013\014\015\016\017' .
@@ -524,15 +525,19 @@ column from the output of recipe 0 and use it in tr/// like so:
     my $ebcdic_string = $ascii_string;
     eval '$ebcdic_string =~ tr/\000-\377/' . $cp_037 . '/';
 
-To convert from EBCDIC to ASCII just reverse the order of the tr/// 
+To convert from EBCDIC 037 to ASCII just reverse the order of the tr/// 
 arguments like so:
 
     my $ascii_string = $ebcdic_string;
-    eval '$ascii_string = tr/' . $code_page_chrs . '/\000-\037/';
+    eval '$ascii_string = tr/' . $cp_037 . '/\000-\377/';
+
+Similarly one could take the output of the third column from recipe 0 to
+obtain a C<$cp_1047> table.  The fourth column of the output from recipe
+0 could provide a C<$cp_posix_bc> table suitable for transcoding as well.
 
 =head2 iconv
 
-XPG4 operability often implies the presence of an I<iconv> utility
+XPG operability often implies the presence of an I<iconv> utility
 available from the shell or from the C library.  Consult your system's
 documentation for information on iconv.
 

diff --git a/vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm b/vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm
index b51f2c9..446b078 100644 (file)
--- a/vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm
+++ b/vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ This package C<ISA> IO::File, so that you can call IO::File
 methods on the handles returned by C<vmsopen> and C<vmssysopen>.
 The IO::File package is not initialized, however, until you
 actually call a method that VMS::Stdio doesn't provide.  This
-is doen to save startup time for users who don't wish to use
+is done to save startup time for users who don't wish to use
 the IO::File methods.
 
 B<Note:>  In order to conform to naming conventions for Perl
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ true value if successful, and C<undef> if it fails.
 This function sets the default device and directory for the process.
 It is identical to the built-in chdir() operator, except that the change
 persists after Perl exits.  It returns a true value on success, and
-C<undef> if it encounters and error.
+C<undef> if it encounters an error.
 
 =item sync