Re: problems with help commands

2002-03-12 Thread Chas Owens
Well, sort of. POD is a documentation language that co-exists with Perl code. Sort of like an underpowered WEB implementation. Type "perldoc perlpod" for more info (now that you can). On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 15:37, Joe Echavarria wrote: > Thanks, > I did not know that. I suppose that POD(P

Re: problems with help commands

2002-03-12 Thread Joe Echavarria
Thanks, I did not know that. I suppose that POD(Plain Old Documentation) is a perl help format. Thanks. --- Tanton Gibbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > perlre is a POD (Plain Old Documentation) file that > you can view using > perldoc. It is not an executable. To see it, do > perldoc perlre

RE: problems with help commands

2002-03-12 Thread Timothy Johnson
How are you trying to execute it? "perldoc perlre" -Original Message- From: Joe Echavarria [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: problems with help commands On my perl distribution i can't execute "perlre", why? i always get

Re: problems with help commands

2002-03-12 Thread Tanton Gibbs
perlre is a POD (Plain Old Documentation) file that you can view using perldoc. It is not an executable. To see it, do perldoc perlre - Original Message - From: "Joe Echavarria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 3:29 PM Subject: problems with help