-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Santiago Vila Doncel, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >- From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jun 2 21:45:40 1998 >Date: 28 May 1998 22:02:52 -0400 > >Once upon a time, I thought I would learn Perl. I got a copy of a >free manual, but I found it simply unreadable, and gave up. Perl >users told me that there were better manuals, but they were not free. > >Perl is an important piece of free software, and it ought to have a >*good* free manual. So I added this item to the GNU task list, hoping >this would encourage someone to write one. > >That was a few years ago. If there is now a good free manual, that's >great. I'm always glad to remove an item from the task list because >the job has been done. I might even buy a copy of this manual, if >someone is selling them--especially if it is O'Reilly. (If we buy >O'Reilly manuals only when they are free, we can encourage O'Reilly to >publish and sell more free manuals.)
I've been involved in this. Perl does have a wonderful free manual. Perl is distributed with excellent (and long) man-pages (well from pod; they can also be turned into html, etc.). They document just about all of Perl that is documented. They are more up-to-date and more extensive than what is in the Camel. (O'Reilly's non-free manual) There is some question about some of the tutorials and the faq distributed with Perl but Tom Christiansen (the author of the questionable documents) is working on making a better copyright for them such that they can be distributed and changed as long as they are distributed with Perl. Darren - -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.daft.com/~torin> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Darren Stalder/2608 Second Ave, @282/Seattle, WA 98121-1212/USA/+1-800-921-4996 @ Sysadmin, webweaver, postmaster for hire. C/Perl/CGI programmer and tutor. @ @ Make a little hot-tub in your soul. @ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface iQCVAwUBNXpG0o4wrq++1Ls5AQH/HAP/f58x5liKBJuM2CkxVZXoNJ+ywXK2/UDo EbYJ/69cGIXbb3UpTiiqJ94XAv7cQYFz5V8Mj0rtQA707iYxA4kbJHNN2oAXlk4u iSSnaLUAGc2euFR63HQlidQsDnpVPLBlqbqUTECh05vatCl4bXyRx+QlJhPvq0bM nXx5AdPmT7E= =MiKs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]