pod/perlfaq4.pod

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diff --git a/README.cygwin b/README.cygwin
index 99d0a4f..32c9a16 100644 (file)
--- a/README.cygwin
+++ b/README.cygwin
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ about this project can be found at:
 
 A recent net or commercial release of Cygwin is required.
 
-At the time this document was last updated, Cygwin 1.3.10 was current.
+At the time this document was last updated, Cygwin 1.3.12 was current.
 
 
 =head2 Cygwin Configuration
@@ -337,6 +337,12 @@ these options, these tests will fail (listing not updated yet):
   lib/sdbm.t            2
   op/stat.t             9, 20 (.tmp not an executable extension)
 
+=head2 NDBM_File does not work on FAT filesystems
+
+Do not install NDBM_File on FAT filesystem.  It can be built on a FAT
+filesystem, but many ndbm tests will fail.  With NTFS, there should be
+no problems either way.
+
 =head2 Script Portability on Cygwin
 
 Cygwin does an outstanding job of providing UNIX-like semantics on top of
@@ -403,7 +409,7 @@ access by native Win32 programs).
 
 Inplace editing C<perl -i> of files doesn't work without doing a backup 
 of the file being edited C<perl -i.bak> because of windowish restrictions,
-so Perl does this automagically if you just use C<perl -i>.
+so Perl adds the C<.bak> automatically if you just use C<perl -i>.
 
 =back
 
@@ -502,8 +508,6 @@ be kept as clean as possible (listing not updated yet).
 
 =head1 BUGS ON CYGWIN
 
-When I<make> starts, it warns about overriding commands for F<perlmain.o>.
-
 Support for swapping real and effective user and group IDs is incomplete.
 On WinNT Cygwin provides setuid(), seteuid(), setgid() and setegid().
 However, additional Cygwin calls for manipulating WinNT access tokens