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It was Friday, May 09, 2003 when Casey West took the soap box, saying:
: It was Friday, May 09, 2003 when Casey West took the soap box, saying:
: : http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=1165
: :
: : Since Schwern hasn't been able to convince anyone that this should be
: : fixed in the interpreter, I'm going to supply his suggested
: : documentation patch.
:
: I was given a quick heads-up about some grammar issues. New patch
: below.
And now a somewhat belated heads-up about some grammar. :-)
Casey West
--
Shooting yourself in the foot with Windows 95
Your gun is not compatible with this OS and you must buy an upgrade
and install it before you can continue. Then you will be informed that
you don't have enough memory.
--- perl-current.orig/pod/perlfunc.pod Fri May 9 00:58:19 2003
+++ perl-current/pod/perlfunc.pod Fri May 9 15:20:09 2003
@@ -870,7 +870,10 @@
When choosing a new salt create a random two character string whose
characters come from the set C<[./0-9A-Za-z]> (like C<join '', ('.',
-'/', 0..9, 'A'..'Z', 'a'..'z')[rand 64, rand 64]>).
+'/', 0..9, 'A'..'Z', 'a'..'z')[rand 64, rand 64]>). This set of
+characters is just a recommendation; the characters allowed in
+the salt depend solely on your system's crypt library, and Perl can't
+restrict what salts C<crypt()> accepts.
Here's an example that makes sure that whoever runs this program knows
their own password:
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