----- Original Message ----- From: "Randy W. Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Fungii" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 9:00 PM Subject: Re: Perldoc on Win98
> Let's keep this on the list, so if others run into the same problem, > they can benefit. Also, it's a good exercise in debugging. Sure, sorry I thought the list would automatically be included in my replies... > Time to do some debugging. Starting with a peek inside 'perldoc': hmm, I > see that you can set PERLDOCDEBUG in the environment to get some more > verbose output. Try: > > set PERLDOCDEBUG=1 > perldoc -v perldoc I've done that and the problem seems to crop up when the 'page' function is called. I managed to get the temp file to put a backslash in place of the forward slash, but it still fails. So that doesn't seem to be the problem after all. It outputs 'About to try calling more<' right before it fails, so now I suspect the problem might lie with 'more<' or the file name doesn't match. I'll check those two out. I just tried entering, from the DOS prompt, the 'more< filename' exactly as it came up in the error message and it displayed the POD fine, one page at a time. I'll keep working on this and post more if I can find anything. Rich BTW Sorry about posting in HTML in the original message and the bad word wrapping. This mail client is brutal. >:( ook at the output and use it to guide you closer to the error. You'll > have to peek inside the source files for Pod::Perldoc. You can probably > just do a search thru the sources for the message above "About to try > calling". Don't be afraid to put a few print statements in their and > otherwise modify the code to try to find and fix the problem. Just make > sure you back it up first. For example > > cd D:\perl\site\lib\Pod\ > copy Perldoc.pm Perldoc.pm.orig > attrib -r Perldoc.pm > edit Perldoc.pm > > If you get it to work, make a diff of the changes: > > diff -u Perldoc.pm.orig Perldoc.pm > C:\Perldoc.patch > > and send it to Sean. Also let us know. > > If you can't find & fix the problem, post what info you can glean and > we'll see where it leads. I don't have Win98, so we may may have to go > back and forth a bit to find the problem. > > Randy. > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
