perldoc, under MSWin and otherwise

[Sean M. Burke]

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.

I have the distinct impression that people referring to some of these problems in perldoc are using the old perldoc, before my just-short-of-total-rewrite that makes perldoc just a thin wrapper around Pod::Perldoc.
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, at least until someone can advise me on how/whether I can dist a perldoc.bat in my CPAN Pod-Perldoc dist and have to install over the perldoc.bat that comes with Perl.)

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"), and if it takes one more to make paging work right, that's fine by me. Email me your patches, please! Don't /just/ send to p5p -- be sure to at least CC me and/or pod-people, as I'm not on p5p, altho I do watch its topics for perldoc mentions at http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/ (via a bit of LWP automation).


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