> On 11/1/06, Bryan R Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> "perldoc" to me has always been this kind of magicians hat where you
>> wave a wand and chant some special words and magically out pops
>> some thing you never read or heard before.
> 
>> Is it possible to somehow pipe the whole thing into a text editor so
>> I can scan or read the whole thing?
> 
> Certainly. The command 'perldoc perldoc' will list the command line
> options for perldoc; one of those will let you choose plain text or
> another form of output.
> 
> Alternatively, you could write your own program, possibly using one or
> more modules, to locate and render pod files. There are several
> modules on CPAN for pod.
> 
> Is that all you needed? Hope this helps!


I think I see how to get them in plain text, but how do I get *all* of them?
I barely know how to use "perldoc -q" and "perldoc -f", is there a way to
get perldoc to dump *everything* it knows into a huge text file?

- B



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