On 22 Sep 2004 at 0:07, Steve Pick wrote:
> This is extremely annoying and the help in pp should probably be
> removerd or at least summarized to a brief explanation of the available
> command line switches. perldoc pp gives the same help but it actually
> works properly
I guess it's annoying if you keep doing it :) However, a typical "usage" summary is
probably better since perldoc itself is just as easy to run and the fallback of
pod2text runs right off the screen.
>
> Glenn Linderman wrote:
>
> > A quick look at "pp.bat" makes me think that this isn't really a PAR
> > problem, that it is a problem for perldoc.bat... which seems to launch
> > some pager... looks like more< is the first to try...
> >
It is a perldoc.bat problem. Even this:
perl -e "exec 'perldoc pp.bat'"
has the same problem, but:
perl -e "system 'perldoc pp.bat'"
works. pp.bat uses exec to avoid fall-thru to:
exec "pod2text $0"
if perldoc exists. The difficulty with system is the difference in return values for
different OSes.
Alan
