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Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 10:15:04 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: perl 5.8.0 from w2k test site problems
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Hello.

CBFalconer wrote:
> 
> Richard Dawe wrote:
> >
> ... snip ...
> >
> > I thought installing skipped copying of the man pages on DOS systems? At
> > least, that's what I remember from Perl 5.6.1. I don't remember having to
> > do anything special - it's something that is disabled by default for the
> > dos-djgpp target, I believe.
> 
> 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. :-(

Yes, you are quite right - it has the man pages like perlfunc, perlre, etc.
But the install process skips ones of the form Foo::Bar.

A good entry point into Perl is the O'Reilly book "Programming Perl" (the
Camel book). You can learn from the man pages (that's how I started), but it's
easier to read a combination of mostly the Camel Book and some of the man
pages (perlop, perlre and perlfunc are the ones I keep looking at).

Bye, Rich =]

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