PL_sawampersand: use 3 bit flags rather than bool

[perl5.git] / README.win32

diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32
index f7549ae..5999d56 100644 (file)
--- a/README.win32
+++ b/README.win32
@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ Be sure to read the instructions near the top of the makefiles carefully.
 Type "dmake" (or "nmake" if you are using that make).
 
 This should build everything.  Specifically, it will create perl.exe,
-perl515.dll at the perl toplevel, and various other extension dll's
+perl517.dll at the perl toplevel, and various other extension dll's
 under the lib\auto directory.  If the build fails for any reason, make
 sure you have done the previous steps correctly.
 
@@ -487,15 +487,18 @@ using a non-standard shell, be inconsistent).  The only (useful) quote
 character is the double quote (").  It can be used to protect spaces
 and other special characters in arguments.
 
-The Windows documentation has almost no description of how the
-quoting rules are implemented, but here are some general observations
-based on experiments: The C runtime breaks arguments at spaces and
-passes them to programs in argc/argv.  Double quotes can be used to
-prevent arguments with spaces in them from being split up.  You can
-put a double quote in an argument by escaping it with a backslash and
-enclosing the whole argument within double quotes.  The backslash and
-the pair of double quotes surrounding the argument will be stripped by
-the C runtime.
+The Windows documentation describes the shell parsing rules here:
+L<http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/cmd.mspx?mfr=true>
+and the C runtime parsing rules here:
+L<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/17w5ykft%28v=VS.100%29.aspx>.
+
+Here are some further observations based on experiments: The C runtime
+breaks arguments at spaces and passes them to programs in argc/argv.
+Double quotes can be used to prevent arguments with spaces in them from
+being split up.  You can put a double quote in an argument by escaping
+it with a backslash and enclosing the whole argument within double quotes.
+The backslash and the pair of double quotes surrounding the argument will
+be stripped by the C runtime.
 
 The file redirection characters "E<lt>", "E<gt>", and "|" can be quoted by
 double quotes (although there are suggestions that this may not always