Subject: Re: Perl man pages.
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net>
List: current-users
Date: 08/01/2003 14:17:52
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 20:29:23 -0700 (PDT) "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
wrote:

> On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Peter Seebach wrote:
> 
> > Once, I was on a system where
> > 	man DB::File
> > did what I meant - it showed the man page for the perl DB::File module.
> >
> > Now, there seems to be no equivalent thing.  I can't find a DB::File.3, or
> > any other similar file.   Where should I be looking for the perl
> > documentation?  In theory, I can go ahead and extract it from DB_File.pm,
> > but presumably, we should be unpacking the documentation for each module
> > as it gets installed.
> 
>  pkg_info -D perl  # says to now use perldoc
> 
>    Jeremy C. Reed
> 
>    http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/

why? man is ... well man. can't we add some phase to perl install or
nightly/weekly/monthly to compute the man equivalents?

-george


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