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Date:      Sun, 9 Feb 1997 15:36:31 +0100
From:      roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
To:        freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 3.0-970124-SNAP: man page search order
Message-ID:  <19970209153631.SO02083@keltia.freenix.fr>
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970209145536.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch on Feb 9, 1997 14:55:36 %2B0100
References:  <Mutt.19970209121157.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <10128.855488661@critter.dk.tfs.com> <Mutt.19970209145536.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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According to J Wunsch:
> Not really.  The syntax description is the smaller part of the Perl
> man page.  The description of the various functions is much fatter.

And Perl5 has solved this problem by dividing the old-fat manpage into
several manpages by subject...

           perl        Perl overview (this section)
           perldelta   Perl changes since previous version

           perldata    Perl data structures
           perlsyn     Perl syntax
           perlop      Perl operators and precedence
           perlre      Perl regular expressions
           perlrun     Perl execution and options
           perlfunc    Perl builtin functions
           perlvar     Perl predefined variables
           perlsub     Perl subroutines
           perlmod     Perl modules
           perlform    Perl formats
           perllocale  Perl locale support

           perlref     Perl references
           perldsc     Perl data structures intro
           perllol     Perl data structures: lists of lists
           perltoot    Perl OO tutorial
           perlobj     Perl objects
           perltie     Perl objects hidden behind simple variables
           perlbot     Perl OO tricks and examples
           perlipc     Perl interprocess communication

           perldebug   Perl debugging
           perldiag    Perl diagnostic messages
           perlsec     Perl security
           perltrap    Perl traps for the unwary
           perlstyle   Perl style guide

           perlpod     Perl plain old documentation
           perlbook    Perl book information

           perlembed   Perl how to embed perl in your C or C++ app
           perlapio    Perl internal IO abstraction interface
           perlxs      Perl XS application programming interface
           perlxstut   Perl XS tutorial
           perlguts    Perl internal functions for those doing extensions
           perlcall    Perl calling conventions from C

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Ollivier ROBERT    -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-    roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
  FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #39: Sun Feb  2 22:12:44 CET 1997



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