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If you want portable packed integers you can either use the formats
C<n>, C<N>, C<v>, and C<V>, or you can use the C<E<gt>> and C<E<lt>>
-modifiers. These modifiers are only available as of perl 5.8.5.
+modifiers. These modifiers are only available as of perl 5.9.2.
See also L<perlport>.
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connections use the C<pack> and C<unpack> formats C<n> and C<N>, the
"network" orders. These are guaranteed to be portable.
-As of perl 5.8.5, you can also use the C<E<gt>> and C<E<lt>> modifiers
+As of perl 5.9.2, you can also use the C<E<gt>> and C<E<lt>> modifiers
to force big- or little-endian byte-order. This is useful if you want
to store signed integers or 64-bit integers, for example.