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Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 21:15:19 -0500
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Subject: Re: perl 5.8.0 from w2k test site problems
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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. :-(

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