Re: Perldocs website?

2004-06-04 Thread Hardy Merrill
facility makes the perldocs in a command prompt window not nearly as useful, so I prefer to go to the perldocs website. Is there something I could do on Windoze XP to make the perldocs searchable?? Thanks. Hardy Merrill Randal L. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/03/04 03:50PM Hardy == Hardy Merrill

Re: Perldocs website?

2004-06-04 Thread Jeff Zucker
Hardy Merrill wrote: Hi Randal, I'm a relative newbie on Windoze XP, but in order to view the perldocs there I have to bring up a command prompt window and type 'perldoc DBI' I don't know XP, but on 98, go to start-programs-activestate-documentation and you'll find a fully HTMLized version of

Re: Perldocs website?

2004-06-04 Thread Hardy Merrill
Thanks Jeff - didn't know about that, but the Active State documentation pages are very nice! One question - does the documentation for CPAN modules that I install get inserted into the Active State documentation? For example, I have DBI installed but I can't seem to locate it in the Active

Re: Perldocs website?

2004-06-04 Thread Michael Ragsdale
At 10:19 AM 6/4/2004, Hardy Merrill wrote: Thanks Jeff - didn't know about that, but the Active State documentation pages are very nice! One question - does the documentation for CPAN modules that I install get inserted into the Active State documentation? For example, I have DBI installed but I

Re: Perldocs website?

2004-06-04 Thread Jeff Zucker
Hardy Merrill wrote: One question - does the documentation for CPAN modules that I install get inserted into the Active State documentation? AFAIK, anything you install with Activestate ppm will add its docs to the HTMLized help. If you install with CPAN or manually, the docs won't get added.

Re: Perldocs website?

2004-06-04 Thread Jeff Zucker
Oh, and I forgot another nice trick. I have a local CGI that, given the name of a module, searches the @INC and does an on-the-fly pod2html on the pod. That gives me HTML access to docs for all installed modules regardless of whether they're in the ActiveState tree or not. -- Jeff

Re: Perldocs website?

2004-06-04 Thread Hardy Merrill
I see folder C:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBI, but no html files in there - just these 4 empty directories: C:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBI\Const C:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBI\Const\GetInfo C:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBI\DBD C:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBI\ProfileDumper Can anyone else shed more light on how

Re: Perldocs website?

2004-06-04 Thread Hardy Merrill
Thanks Jeff. That explains why I don't see DBI show up in the Active State documentation - I wasn't able to get PPM to through our firewall and/or proxy, so I resorted to downloading the package and installing it manually. Jeff Zucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/04/04 10:33AM Hardy Merrill wrote:

Perldocs website?

2004-06-03 Thread Hardy Merrill
Anyone know where the perldocs website went? I just went to google and nothing seems to come up. I can't find much on www.perl.org. TIA. Hardy Merrill

Re: Perldocs website?

2004-06-03 Thread Michael Ragsdale
At 11:17 AM 6/3/2004, Hardy Merrill wrote: Anyone know where the perldocs website went? I just went to google and nothing seems to come up. I can't find much on www.perl.org. TIA. Hardy Merrill Do you mean http://perldoc.com/ ?

Re: Perldocs website?

2004-06-03 Thread Hardy Merrill
PROTECTED] 06/03/04 11:15AM At 11:17 AM 6/3/2004, Hardy Merrill wrote: Anyone know where the perldocs website went? I just went to google and nothing seems to come up. I can't find much on www.perl.org. TIA. Hardy Merrill Do you mean http://perldoc.com/ ?