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authorJan Dubois <jand@activestate.com>2007-01-23 10:43:55 -0800
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2007-01-24 11:22:17 +0000
commit1f0701279d8416e729455ce1c3a8a748a3488d30 (patch)
tree81a4c72b1ea0be3c1976351228560737e35d5368 /pod/perlrun.pod
parent99ffb1cb9ad68572b442d79446caa8bcbb2964fc (diff)
downloadperl-1f0701279d8416e729455ce1c3a8a748a3488d30.tar.gz
Improve documentation PERLIO default value in perlrun.pod
Message-ID: <jhhdr21vmlo5ccbfd8la2di4bq8crv3s8t@4ax.com> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@29941
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@@ -1056,7 +1056,8 @@ layer specification strings (which is also used to decode the PERLIO
environment variable) treats the colon as a separator.
An unset or empty PERLIO is equivalent to the default set of layers for
-your platforms, for example C<:unix:perlio>.
+your platform, for example C<:unix:perlio> on UNIX-like systems
+and C<:unix:crlf> on Windows and other DOS-like systems.
The list becomes the default for I<all> perl's IO. Consequently only built-in
layers can appear in this list, as external layers (such as :encoding()) need