Re: [MacPerl] "the pod"

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

Peter Van Avermaet <PVanAver@inetgate.capvolmac.nl> writes:
>Thank you for the explanation. It sounds a bit like the setext format.

Yes, but tilted a bit more towards formatting and less towards plaintext
viewing.

>I understand that there is a pod viewer for Mac, called Shuck.

Included in the 5.1.0 distribution.

>I remember having seen a URL that started with "pod:" - are there really Web
>browsers out there that read pod, or was that a joke / a wish ?

None of the above. Urlification makes it possible to use Internet Config to do
the dispatching (purists may object that pod, as opposed to ftp and http, is
not a protocol at all.

>Is there a specification somewhere for the pod format ?

Yes. It is, of course, written in pod. See "Various" -> "Documentation Format"
in the help menu.

Matthias

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