=head1 NAME
-perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.3 $, $Date: 2001/10/16 13:27:22 $)
+perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.7 $, $Date: 2002/01/11 02:31:20 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Otherwise you'll have to write your own multiplexing print
function--or your own tee program--or use Tom Christiansen's,
-at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/TOMC/scripts/tct.gz , which is
+at http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/TOMC/scripts/tct.gz , which is
written in Perl and offers much greater functionality
than the stock version.
for instance, gets treated as two paragraphs and not three), or
C<"\n\n"> to accept empty paragraphs.
-Note that a blank line must have no blanks in it. Thus C<"fred\n
-\nstuff\n\n"> is one paragraph, but C<"fred\n\nstuff\n\n"> is two.
+Note that a blank line must have no blanks in it. Thus
+S<C<"fred\n \nstuff\n\n">> is one paragraph, but C<"fred\n\nstuff\n\n"> is two.
=head2 How can I read a single character from a file? From the keyboard?
=head2 Why does Perl let me delete read-only files? Why does C<-i> clobber protected files? Isn't this a bug in Perl?
-This is elaborately and painstakingly described in the "Far More Than
-You Ever Wanted To Know" in
-http://www.perl.com/CPAN/doc/FMTEYEWTK/file-dir-perms .
+This is elaborately and painstakingly described in the
+F<file-dir-perms> article in the "Far More Than You Ever Wanted To
+Know" collection in http://www.cpan.org/olddoc/FMTEYEWTK.tgz .
The executive summary: learn how your filesystem works. The
permissions on a file say what can happen to the data in that file.