I was looking over perlport recently and saw some bad quoting due to insufficient escaping, so I patched the appropriate line. I presume it's correct to add my name to the list of contributors at the end. --- pod/perlport.pod.orig Sun Jul 22 01:11:28 2001 +++ pod/perlport.pod Fri Jul 27 06:46:07 2001 @@ -1757,7 +1757,7 @@ Truncation to zero-length only. (VOS) If a FILEHANDLE is supplied, it must be writable and opened in append -mode (i.e., use C<open(FH, '>>filename')> +mode (i.e., use C<<< open(FH, '>>filename') >>> or C<sysopen(FH,...,O_APPEND|O_RDWR)>. If a filename is supplied, it should not be held open elsewhere. (Win32) @@ -2067,6 +2067,7 @@ Paul Moore <Paul.Moore@uk.origin-it.com>, Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>, Matthias Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>, +Philip Newton <pne@cpan.org>, Gary Ng <71564.1743@CompuServe.COM>, Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>, AndrE<eacute> Pirard <A.Pirard@ulg.ac.be>, End of patch. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@gmx.net>Thread Next