previous Perls), perlio (re-implementation of stdio buffering in a
portable manner), crlf (does CRLF <=> "\n" translation as on Win32,
but available on any platform). A mmap layer may be available if
-platform supports it (mostly UNIXes).
+platform supports it (mostly Unixes).
Layers to be applied by default may be specified via the 'open' pragma.
=item *
-The list form of C<open> is now implemented for pipes (at least on UNIX):
+The list form of C<open> is now implemented for pipes (at least on Unix):
open($fh,"-|", 'cat', '/etc/motd')
=item *
-PerlIO::Scalar, by Nick Ing-Simmons, provides the implementation of
+PerlIO::scalar, by Nick Ing-Simmons, provides the implementation of
IO to "in memory" Perl scalars as discussed above. It also serves as
an example of a loadable layer. Other future possibilities include
-PerlIO::Array and PerlIO::Code. See L<PerlIO::Scalar> for more
+PerlIO::array and PerlIO::code. See L<PerlIO::scalar> for more
information.
=item *
open($fh,">Via(MIME::QuotedPrint)",$path)
This will automatically convert everything output to C<$fh>
-to Quoted-Printable. See L<PerlIO::Via> for more information.
+to Quoted-Printable. See L<PerlIO::via> for more information.
=item *
Many new tests have been added. The most notable is probably the
lib/1_compile: it is very notable because running it takes quite a
-long time -- it test compiles all the Perl modules in the distribution.
+long time. It test compiles all the Perl modules in the distribution.
Please be patient.
=head1 Known Problems