------------------------------------------------ On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 08:55:52 -0500, "JOHN FISHER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am extremely new to trying to navigate CPAN. I do it from a command line. While > the screen can dump out so much information the help screen is very limited. Is > there a document or the like that can give me more information on using CPAN. > > When I tried doing a command like > i /Text::/ > the screen whipped by so fast I couldn't follow it. I did use Cntl-S to stop it and > that helped, but was hoping to use a pipe and grep it. Couldn't make that work. > > One of the main things I want to do is learn more about modules. > Typing in > i Text::Chump > doesn't give me enough info to understand what it is and how to use it. > > I did try a command > readme Text::Diff > and got back > =========================== > Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file > (ftp://archive.progeny.com/CPAN/, ftp://cpan-sj.viaverio.com/pub/CPAN/, > ftp://cpan.cse.msu.edu/) are valid. The urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o > conf urllist push ftp://myurl/' > > Could not fetch authors/id/R/RB/RBS/Text-Diff-0.35.readme > > No R/RB/RBS/Text-Diff-0.35.readme found > =========================== > The web interface is very easy to use: http://search.cpan.org or is there some reason why this must be done from the CLI? If so the limitation of scrolling is usually best handled in the terminal window rather than CPAN. Though the pipe/grep combo would be nice it is not a shell its the CPAN client, and I suppose in the end that is why there is the web interface. Although I have not used it you may also want to check out CPANPLUS as it is supposed to be better... http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
