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diff --git a/contrib/perl5/pod/perl.pod b/contrib/perl5/pod/perl.pod index 0b9e9fa..6e218cd 100644 --- a/contrib/perl5/pod/perl.pod +++ b/contrib/perl5/pod/perl.pod @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ of sections: perl Perl overview (this section) perldelta Perl changes since previous version + perl5004delta Perl changes in version 5.004 perlfaq Perl frequently asked questions perltoc Perl documentation table of contents @@ -29,6 +30,7 @@ of sections: perlre Perl regular expressions perlrun Perl execution and options perlfunc Perl builtin functions + perlopentut Perl open() tutorial perlvar Perl predefined variables perlsub Perl subroutines perlmod Perl modules: how they work @@ -38,6 +40,7 @@ of sections: perllocale Perl locale support perlref Perl references + perlreftut Perl references short introduction perldsc Perl data structures intro perllol Perl data structures: lists of lists perltoot Perl OO tutorial @@ -45,6 +48,7 @@ of sections: perltie Perl objects hidden behind simple variables perlbot Perl OO tricks and examples perlipc Perl interprocess communication + perlthrtut Perl threads tutorial perldebug Perl debugging perldiag Perl diagnostic messages @@ -68,8 +72,8 @@ of sections: (If you're intending to read these straight through for the first time, the suggested order will tend to reduce the number of forward references.) -By default, all of the above manpages are installed in the -F</usr/local/man/> directory. +By default, all of the above manpages are installed in the +F</usr/local/man/> directory. Extensive additional documentation for Perl modules is available. The default configuration for perl will place this additional documentation @@ -116,9 +120,9 @@ BASIC-PLUS.) Expression syntax corresponds quite closely to C expression syntax. Unlike most Unix utilities, Perl does not arbitrarily limit the size of your data--if you've got the memory, Perl can slurp in your whole file as a single string. Recursion is of -unlimited depth. And the tables used by hashes (previously called +unlimited depth. And the tables used by hashes (sometimes called "associative arrays") grow as necessary to prevent degraded -performance. Perl uses sophisticated pattern matching techniques to +performance. Perl can use sophisticated pattern matching techniques to scan large amounts of data very quickly. Although optimized for scanning text, Perl can also deal with binary data, and can make dbm files look like hashes. Setuid Perl scripts are safer than C programs @@ -239,6 +243,79 @@ optimized C code. Okay, that's I<definitely> enough hype. +=head1 AVAILABILITY + +Perl is available for the vast majority of operating system platforms, +including most Unix-like platforms. The following situation is as of +February 1999 and Perl 5.005_03. + +The following platforms are able to build Perl from the standard +source code distribution available at +F<http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/index.html> + + AIX Linux SCO ODT/OSR + A/UX MachTen Solaris + BeOS MPE/iX SunOS + BSD/OS NetBSD SVR4 + DG/UX NextSTEP Tru64 UNIX 3) + DomainOS OpenBSD Ultrix + DOS DJGPP 1) OpenSTEP UNICOS + DYNIX/ptx OS/2 VMS + FreeBSD OS390 2) VOS + HP-UX PowerMAX Windows 3.1 1) + Hurd QNX Windows 95 1) 4) + IRIX Windows 98 1) 4) + Windows NT 1) 4) + + 1) in DOS mode either the DOS or OS/2 ports can be used + 2) formerly known as MVS + 3) formerly known as Digital UNIX and before that DEC OSF/1 + 4) compilers: Borland, Cygwin32, Mingw32 EGCS/GCC, VC++ + +The following platforms have been known to build Perl from the source +but for the Perl release 5.005_03 we haven't been able to verify them, +either because the hardware/software platforms are rather rare or +because we don't have an active champion on these platforms, or both. + + 3b1 FPS Plan 9 + AmigaOS GENIX PowerUX + ConvexOS Greenhills RISC/os + CX/UX ISC Stellar + DC/OSx MachTen 68k SVR2 + DDE SMES MiNT TI1500 + DOS EMX MPC TitanOS + Dynix NEWS-OS UNICOS/mk + EP/IX Opus Unisys Dynix + ESIX Unixware + +The following platforms are planned to be supported in the standard +source code distribution of the Perl release 5.006 but are not +supported in the Perl release 5.005_03: + + BS2000 + Netware + Rhapsody + VM/ESA + +The following platforms have their own source code distributions and +binaries available via F<http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html>. + + Perl release + + AS/400 5.003 + MacOS 5.004 + Netware 5.003_07 + Tandem Guardian 5.004 + +The following platforms have only binaries available via +F<http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html>. + + Perl release + + Acorn RISCOS 5.005_02 + AOS 5.002 + LynxOS 5.004_02 + =head1 ENVIRONMENT See L<perlrun>. @@ -247,14 +324,13 @@ See L<perlrun>. Larry Wall <F<larry@wall.org>>, with the help of oodles of other folks. -If your Perl success stories and testimonials may be of help to others -who wish to advocate the use of Perl in their applications, -or if you wish to simply express your gratitude to Larry and the +If your Perl success stories and testimonials may be of help to others +who wish to advocate the use of Perl in their applications, +or if you wish to simply express your gratitude to Larry and the Perl developers, please write to <F<perl-thanks@perl.org>>. =head1 FILES - "/tmp/perl-e$$" temporary file for -e commands "@INC" locations of perl libraries =head1 SEE ALSO @@ -296,9 +372,10 @@ and syswrite().) While none of the built-in data types have any arbitrary size limits (apart from memory size), there are still a few arbitrary limits: a -given variable name may not be longer than 255 characters, and no -component of your PATH may be longer than 255 if you use B<-S>. A regular -expression may not compile to more than 32767 bytes internally. +given variable name may not be longer than 251 characters. Line numbers +displayed by diagnostics are internally stored as short integers, +so they are limited to a maximum of 65535 (higher numbers usually being +affected by wraparound). You may mail your bug reports (be sure to include full configuration information as output by the myconfig program in the perl source tree, |
