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diff --git a/lib/ZOOM.pod b/lib/ZOOM.pod
index 5d63838..20fb9a1 100644
--- a/lib/ZOOM.pod
+++ b/lib/ZOOM.pod
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-# $Id: ZOOM.pod,v 1.42 2007-02-26 14:40:01 mike Exp $
-
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 
@@ -98,6 +96,13 @@ C<ZOOM::Connection::errcode()>,
 irrespective of whether it is a member of the C<ZOOM::Error>
 enumeration or drawn from the BIB-1 diagnostic set.
 
+=head2 ZOOM::diag_srw_str()
+
+ $msg = ZOOM::diag_srw_str(18);
+
+Returns a human-readable English-language string corresponding to the
+specified SRW error code.
+
 =head2 ZOOM::event_str()
 
  $msg = ZOOM::event_str(ZOOM::Event::RECV_APDU);
@@ -279,8 +284,8 @@ type C<ZOOM::Options> (see below), into which options may be set
 before or after the creation of the Connection.  Alternatively and
 equivalently, C<create()> may be passed a list of key-value option
 pairs directly.  The connection to the server may then be forged by
-the C<connect()> method, the arguments of which are the same as those
-of the C<new()> constructor.
+the C<connect()> method, which accepts hostname and port arguments
+like those of the C<new()> constructor.
 
 =head4 error_x() / errcode() / errmsg() / addinfo() / diagset()
 
@@ -305,6 +310,15 @@ returns all four at once.
 
 See the C<ZOOM::Exception> for the interpretation of these elements.
 
+=head4 exception()
+
+ die $conn->exception();
+
+C<exception()> returns the same information as C<error_x()> in the
+form of a C<ZOOM::Exception> object which may be thrown or rendered.
+If no error occurred on the connection, then C<exception()> returns an
+undefined value.
+
 =head4 check()
 
  $conn->check();
@@ -529,7 +543,7 @@ Returns the number of records in the result set.
 The C<record()> method returns a C<ZOOM::Record> object representing
 a record from result-set, whose position is indicated by the argument
 passed in.  This is a zero-based index, so that legitimate values
-range from zero to C<$rs->size()-1>.
+range from zero to C<$rs-E<gt>size()-1>.
 
 The C<record_immediate()> API is identical, but it never invokes a
 network operation, merely returning the record from the ResultSet's
@@ -555,7 +569,7 @@ wants to display a whole list of results.  Conversely, the software's
 strategy might be always to ask for blocks of a twenty records:
 that's great for assembling long lists of things, but wasteful when
 only one record is wanted.  The problem is that the ZOOM module can't
-tell, when you call C<$rs->record()>, what your intention is.
+tell, when you call C<$rs-E<gt>record()>, what your intention is.
 
 But you can tell it.  The C<records()> method fetches a sequence of
 records, all in one go.  It takes three arguments: the first is the
@@ -1552,7 +1566,7 @@ Mike Taylor, E<lt>mike@indexdata.comE<gt>
 
 =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
 
-Copyright (C) 2005 by Index Data.
+Copyright (C) 2005-2014 by Index Data.
 
 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.4 or,