On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 02:27:00PM +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> 
> The other day in a class I was teaching as I was showing how
> to copy a file using File::Copy someone asked (as that happens
> always) how could he find out the answer alone to this and
> similar questions.
> I pointed to various sources such as
> 
> perldoc -q           but it has no anse to this question

Not quite true; the first item returned for "perldoc -q shell" talks
about Shell.pm at the end; although it's not a pointer to File::Copy,
it's a solution. However, I fully agree with Tad; this is asked often
enough that it _should_ have an easy-to-find '-q' entry of its own.


* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://linuxgazette.net *

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