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Re: [MacPerl] macperl-friendly (droplet?) pod to something?



Regarding a macperl way to view pod documentation such
as pod2html or pod2text, a quick summary to get the answer 
into the searchable archives:

The obvious answer (duh!) worked; as Matthias implied/questioned:
simply open pod2html in macperl, save it as a droplet, and 
drop on the module you are curious about.  Macperl reports
a file is available, and a browser shows you the html-ized pod.

I apologize for not recognizing the obvious answer; when I
looked at the source and saw things like:

Perl -Sx "{0}" {"Parameters"}; Exit {Status}
#!perl
eval 'exec perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
        if $running_under_some_shell;

I thought for sure that these were unix-isms which would
choke macperl.  Yet, MacPerl rules!

I also grabbed 'shuck' from
ftp://err.ethz.ch/pub/neeri/MacPerl/Beta/Shuck_10b1.sit.bin
and it does the job nicely also.

Thanks, Matthias!  Regards, Mike