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Postings from July 2001
Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@gmx.net> writes: >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') >>> I thought that pod used E<lt> rather that multiple <> nests to get this right. > 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 -- Nick Ing-Simmons http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/Thread Previous