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Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 13:31:13 -0500
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From: "Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT banet DOT net>
Subject: Re: Two glitches for autoconf 2.49b
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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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