Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2001/01/01/13:29:42
At 06:56 PM 1/1/01 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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>> Oh, and while we're on the topic of man pages, how would you treat
>> Perl's man pages (eg Foo::Bar.3). These are extremely invalid names
>> on dos.
>
>What? Perl finally got man pages?? It doesn't use *.pod files
>anymore??? Blasphemy! ;-)
;-)) No, perl still uses *.pod, but some CPAN modules use perl build
facilities to make man pages as well as *.pod docs. I saw this in the
"Text-CSV_XS-0.20" module, for example.
>> I'd suggest that man changes '::' in a man page to a '/', so
>> the man pages can be in subdirs (eg man/cat3/Foo/Bar.3).
>
>I don't think `man' should dictate to the ported Perl how to rename
>these files in the DJGPP port.
>
>How are these files called in the distributions of DOS and Windows
>ports (`:' is invalid on Windows as well)?
As I said in my reply to Tim, I submitted changes a few months ago to
p5p to make the "::" become "__" under DJGPP. I haven't the facilities
to build the other versions that run under DOS/Win, so I can't say what
they do.
HTH
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Peter J. Farley III (pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org OR
pjfarley AT banet DOT net)
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