On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 12:25 -0400, Telemachus wrote: > On Tue Oct 14 2008 @ 3:58, Rob Dixon wrote: > > Chas. Owens wrote: > > > > > > [...] if for some reason you don't have access to perldoc > > > > Are there any installations of perl that don't include the manual? > > In Debian (and so probably many of its children), perl-doc is a distinct > package and not installed automatically when you install the perl package. > > Stupid, but true.
A lot of installations don't have perldoc and development man pages. Unfortunately, in Debian it's called perl-doc so searching for perldoc fails. Also, since many of the perldocs refer to C functions, the man pages for them are in manpages-dev . -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn Linux is obsolete. -- Andrew Tanenbaum -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
