Sean M. Burke wrote:
> So that's where Wordpad comes in -- it's pretty lightweight. Open an
> RTF document with it ("write.exe foo.rtf"), and it starts up pretty fast.
> But the disadvantage is that I think (think!) that some older MSWins
> don't come with a write.exe that supports reading RTF -- their write.exe
> really is the nasty old WinWrite or whatever, which is as dumb as mud
> and about as useful.
> My question is: does anyone have a better idea for how to view formatted
> Pod under MSWin, something ideally portable and not-bloaty? I'm tending
> to consider something Tk-based as both not-portable, and possibly bloaty.
The bloaty but best version is Aldo Capini's PodView, which comes with
Win32::GUI. He uses a similar approach, but uses the RichEdit Control
which is even more lightweight than wordpad.
http://search.cpan.org/author/ACALPINI/Win32GUI-Beta/
He wrote his own POD::RTF module to change header and text formatting
for this kind of usage.
http://search.cpan.org/src/ACALPINI/Win32GUI-Beta/samples/Pod/RTF.pm
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