Dick Penny wrote: > I give up! Am trying to be self-sufficient because there is so much > documentation, BUT how do you get at it? I cannot find a single example > in Perl User Guide of how to get POD to cough up it's goodies. > Everything I find seems to assume one wants to get at PODstuff by > executing some Perl script and doing POD:: blah, blah blah. > > I'd like to type something in at command prompt like: > 1) perlpod -h (or perlpod.pl -h) #expect to see allowable arguments > to a perlpod script > 2) perl perlpod PPM #expect to get all documentation for PPM display on > my screen > 3) something zip #expect to get all docs of scripts relating to zip > files
Look in your bin dir and you will see perldoc.bat - give that a try. I prefer to combine the base pods into a single text file and use vim to search it. Script to do so is on my Tripod site. > This isn't my real problem. It is me trying to learn how to work with > .zip files. I've been to CPAN, but the installation processes are not > fathomable (eg. archive-zip-0.11). In my opinion, there is absolutely no > need for "make" files in a scripting world where one only downloads > scripts and/or binaries. CPAN was designed with the UNIX community in mind. Use PPM from the Activestate site if you can't fathom CPAN. If it's not on AS site, then you're in trouble. :) > Any words of wisdom appreciated. Buy low - sell high. :) -- ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill Luebkert ICQ=14439852 (_/ / ) // // DBE Collectibles Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] / ) /--< o // // http://dbecoll.tripod.com/ (Free site for Perl) -/-' /___/_<_</_</_ Castle of Medieval Myth & Magic http://www.todbe.com/ _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users
