The list of filenames from glob() (or <...>) is now by default sorted
alphabetically to be csh-compliant (which is what happened before
-in most UNIX platforms). (bsd_glob() does still sort platform
+in most Unix platforms). (bsd_glob() does still sort platform
natively, ASCII or EBCDIC, unless GLOB_ALPHASORT is specified.) [561]
=head2 Deprecations
The existing behaviour when localising tied arrays and hashes is wrong,
and will be changed in a future release, so do not rely on the existing
-behaviour. See L<"Localising Tied Arrays and Hashes Is Broken">.
+behaviour. See L</"Localising Tied Arrays and Hashes Is Broken">.
=back
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.
This warns you that C<"fred@example.com"> is going to turn into
C<fred.com> if you don't backslash the C<@>.
-See http://www.plover.com/~mjd/perl/at-error.html for more details
+See http://perl.plover.com/at-error.html for more details
about the history here.
=head2 Miscellaneous Changes
=item *
-L<utime> now supports C<utime undef, undef, @files> to change the
+L<perlfunc/utime> now supports C<utime undef, undef, @files> to change the
file timestamps to the current time.
=item *
=item *
-In SDBM_File on dosish platforms, some keys went missing because of
+In SDBM_File on DOSish platforms, some keys went missing because of
lack of support for files with "holes". A workaround for the problem
has been added.
=item *
C<perlcc> has been rewritten and its user interface (that is,
-command line) is much more like that of the UNIX C compiler, cc.
+command line) is much more like that of the Unix C compiler, cc.
(The perlbc tools has been removed. Use C<perlcc -B> instead.)
B<Note that perlcc is still considered very experimental and
unsupported.> [561]
=item *
C<pod2html> now understands POD written using different line endings
-(PC-like CRLF versus UNIX-like LF versus MacClassic-like CR).
+(PC-like CRLF versus Unix-like LF versus MacClassic-like CR).
=item *
have been regained. Many test suite tests still fail and the
co-existence of Unicode and EBCDIC isn't quite settled, but the
situation is much better than with Perl 5.6. See L<perlos390>,
-L<perlbs2000> (for POSIX-BC), and L<perlvmesa> for more information.
+L<perlbs2000> (for POSIX-BC), and perlvmesa for more information.
+(B<Note:> support for VM/ESA was removed in Perl v5.18.0. The relevant
+information was in F<README.vmesa>)
=item *
=item *
-The Amdahl UTS UNIX mainframe platform is now supported. [561]
+The Amdahl UTS Unix mainframe platform is now supported. [561]
=item *
ext/POSIX/t/sigaction...............FAILED at test 13
ext/POSIX/t/waitpid.................FAILED at test 1
-See L<perlbeos> (README.beos) for more details.
+(B<Note:> more information was available in F<README.beos> until support for
+BeOS was removed in Perl v5.18.0)
=head2 Cygwin "unable to remap"
=head2 UTS
-There are a few known test failures, see L<perluts> (README.uts).
+There are a few known test failures. (B<Note:> the relevant information was
+available in F<README.uts> until support for UTS was removed in Perl
+v5.18.0)
=head2 VOS (Stratus)