perl FAQ posted

[Tom Christiansen]

I've just posted the first in a monthly posting of most frequently
asked questions about perl to the comp.lang.perl newsgroup.  Answers
to the following questions are included:

    1)   What is Perl?
    2)   Where can I get Perl?
    3)   How can I get Perl via UUCP?
    4)   Where can I get documentation and examples for Perl?
    5)   Are archives of comp.lang.perl available?
    6)   Is Perl available for machine FOO?
    7)   What are all these $@%<> signs and how do I know when to use them?
    8)   Why don't backticks work as they do in shells?  
    9)   How come Perl operators have different precedence than C operators?
    10)  How come my converted awk/sed/sh script runs more slowly in Perl?
    11)  There's an a2p and an s2p; why isn't there a p2c?
    12)  Where can I get undump for my machine?
    13)  How can I call my system's unique functions from Perl?
    14)  Where do I get the include files to do ioctl() or syscall()?
    15)  Why doesn't "local($foo) = <FILE>;" work right?
    16)  How can I detect keyboard input without reading it?
    17)  How do I make an array of arrays?
    18)  How can I quote a variable to use in a regexp?
    19)  Why do setuid Perl scripts complain about kernel problems?
    20)  How do I open a pipe both to and from a command?
    21)  How can I change the first N letters of a string?


--tom