Hi, Brian ...
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Brian Snyder wrote:
> Hi all, what are these POD doc files? What format is that and what
> application is required to read this?
you can convert POD to text, man, latex and some other formats. the
programs used for this are perl scripts named pod2text, pod2man etc.
the easiest of these is pod2text which looks like this:
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#!/usr/bin/perl
eval 'exec /usr/bin/perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
if $running_under_some_shell;
use Pod::Text;
if(@ARGV) {
pod2text($ARGV[0]);
} else {
pod2text("<&STDIN");
}
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pod2html is originally longer, but can be stripped to just this:
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#!/usr/bin/perl
use Pod::Html;
pod2html @ARGV;
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which is extremely short i think ;-)
hope that helps.
Alfe
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