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Re: [MacPerl] How to read .pod in Unix?



At 09.18 -0400 1998.09.18, Matthias Ulrich Neeracher wrote:
>Xah Lee <xah@best.com> writes:
>>Sorry for this extremely stupid question.
>>
>>What reader can I use to read .pod in Unix?
>>(through telnet from my Mac)
>>
>>And, is there a dedicated reader like Shuck on mkLinux?
>
>ln -s `which pod2text` /usr/bin/shuck
>
>:-) I think there is also a PerlTk pod reader.

Just use man and/or perldoc.  To look up individual functions with man, use
splitman (in perlsrc/pod/) to split perlfunc.1 into individual man pages;
to look up individual functions with perldoc, use perldoc -f function.

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