From:	Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Message-Id:	<200301181007.h0IA7pT20645@brother.ludd.luth.se>
Subject:	Re: perl 5.8.0 from w2k test site problems
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Date:	Sat, 18 Jan 2003 11:07:51 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To:	<3E28B8B7.9F36292C@yahoo.com> from "CBFalconer" at Jan 17, 2003 09:15:19 PM
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According to CBFalconer:
> I just installed Perl 5.6.1 here a few days ago, and the man pages
> arrived with it, but no info pages.  I intended to find out
> something about the language, but the mans are incomprehensible to
> a beginner.  Somewhere in all that there is probably an entry
> point, but it is non-obvious to me. :-(

"man perl" is a good start. Then "man perlfaq", then I'm not sure.

Perl doesn't use texinfo. It uses perldoc. Try "perldoc B::C" e. g.


Right,

						MartinS

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