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Date:      Sun, 9 Feb 1997 10:44:31 -0600 (CST)
From:      Gary Clark II <gclarkii@main.gbdata.com>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 3.0-970124-SNAP: man page search order
Message-ID:  <199702091644.KAA08070@main.gbdata.com>
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970209163047.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Feb 9, 97 04:30:47 pm"

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J Wunsch wrote:
> 
> Maybe Poul's idea isn't too bad, to split the Perl manual by
> functions, and drop them into a separate section.  This could easily
> be the last section in the search order (Perl bigots are free to put a
> MANSEC in their environment moving it earlier), something like section
> `p'.  But still i think, an HTML ref would be better, there you can
> search either by function name or by function group.  But then, i
> really want the small and terse man page back! :-)

> cheers, J"org

Hello,

The pod system can generate html.  (I use them here.)

Gary

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