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Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 10:01:42 +0100
From: Tim Van Holder <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com, "Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT banet DOT net>
Subject: Re: Two glitches for autoconf 2.49b
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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! ;-)
It can optionally install its pods as man pages.

>> 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.
No, of course not - but it would be nice if man translated '::' to

whatever alternative the ported perl uses.
I have my reservations about using '__' instead of '::' though; few
packages have a name with less than three letters. This would give
Foo__xxxxxxxxx.1, where the xxxx would only have three significant
letters in an 8.3 system. Not a lot.
A quick check in /usr/man/man3 on my RH6.2 box shows a few dozen names 
that would cause trouble (a few examples: anything from Digest, ExtUtils
or Getopt, as the name + __ is already 8 or longer, Pod::Parser and 
Pod::ParseUtils, and several more).
IIRC perl uses a perl script to manufacture and install these man pages,
so I think it should not be that hard to use subdirs if on DOS. Peter?

> How are these files called in the distributions of DOS and Windows
> ports (`:' is invalid on Windows as well)?
I think they simply don't include man versions (IIRC, ActiveState

includes html'ed pod files). I guess 'man' is not used that much

in a GUI environment.

-- 
Tim Van Holder - Falcon Software N.V.
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