On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 18:19:14 -0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean M. Burke)
wrote:

> Someone mentioned to me that people on p5p were talking about perldoc under 
> MSWin going kookoo when using more as the pager.  I've just tried 
> reproducing the problem and can't.

Did you use Win9x/ME? Or NT/2K/XP? I can imagine the problem is only on
the former series. (I saw it on a Win98SE machine with ActivePerl's
5.8.0.)

> I encourage everyone using a Perl after 5.005 to upgrade their perldoc from 
> CPAN's Pod::Perldoc.  (MSWin users will have to screw around with also 
> altering their perldoc.bat file manually

I'll give that a try. Having a usable perldoc again would indeed be
useful. Especially if, as you write,

> Pod::Perldoc has a great deal of MSWin-specific hacks in it already (like a 
> bunch of temp-file stuff -- File::Temp doesn't get used at all under MSWin 
> -- see the code around "sub new_tempfile")

since I think the problem is with File::Temp creating files in binmode.
So if that's not used, the problem might go away.

Cheers,
Philip

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