From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 16:25:06 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: FAQ sync.
X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d2321c93212ec55efb2273c89a29b5ee3b388e1b;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git

FAQ sync.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@14729
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diff --git a/pod/perlfaq3.pod b/pod/perlfaq3.pod
index 9326a03..0f678f1 100644
--- a/pod/perlfaq3.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfaq3.pod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 =head1 NAME
 
-perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.13 $, $Date: 2002/02/08 22:32:47 $)
+perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.15 $, $Date: 2002/02/11 19:29:52 $)
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
@@ -832,6 +832,9 @@ For example:
     print "Hello world\n"
      (then Run "Myscript" or Shift-Command-R)
 
+    # MPW
+    perl -e 'print "Hello world\n"'
+
     # VMS
     perl -e "print ""Hello world\n"""
 
@@ -850,8 +853,7 @@ characters as control characters.
 Using qq(), q(), and qx(), instead of "double quotes", 'single
 quotes', and `backticks`, may make one-liners easier to write.
 
-There is no general solution to all of this.  It is a mess, pure and
-simple.  Sucks to be away from Unix, huh? :-)
+There is no general solution to all of this.  It is a mess.
 
 [Some of this answer was contributed by Kenneth Albanowski.]
 
diff --git a/pod/perlfaq5.pod b/pod/perlfaq5.pod
index f93b624..80aad94 100644
--- a/pod/perlfaq5.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfaq5.pod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 =head1 NAME
 
-perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.8 $, $Date: 2002/01/28 04:17:26 $)
+perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.9 $, $Date: 2002/02/11 19:30:21 $)
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
@@ -607,24 +607,18 @@ For more information, see also the new L<perlopentut> if you have it
 
 =head2 How can I reliably rename a file?
 
-Well, usually you just use Perl's rename() function.  That may not
-work everywhere, though, particularly when renaming files across file systems.
-Some sub-Unix systems have broken ports that corrupt the semantics of
-rename()--for example, WinNT does this right, but Win95 and Win98
-are broken.  (The last two parts are not surprising, but the first is. :-)
-
-If your operating system supports a proper mv(1) program or its moral
+If your operating system supports a proper mv(1) utility or its functional
 equivalent, this works:
 
     rename($old, $new) or system("mv", $old, $new);
 
-It may be more compelling to use the File::Copy module instead.  You
-just copy to the new file to the new name (checking return values),
-then delete the old one.  This isn't really the same semantically as a
-real rename(), though, which preserves metainformation like
+It may be more portable to use the File::Copy module instead.
+You just copy to the new file to the new name (checking return
+values), then delete the old one.  This isn't really the same
+semantically as a rename(), which preserves meta-information like
 permissions, timestamps, inode info, etc.
 
-Newer versions of File::Copy exports a move() function.
+Newer versions of File::Copy export a move() function.
 
 =head2 How can I lock a file?