Indexed man pages?

2002-12-12 Thread Rob Richardson
Greetings! Another question showing my heritage as a programmer in the world according to Microsoft: Poking around in the man pages seems to me to be a slow process, especially for one who is new to the world of Perl. Has anyone converted the man pages into the same kind of indexed help files th

RE: Indexed man pages?

2002-12-12 Thread Kipp, James
> > Another question showing my heritage as a programmer in the world > according to Microsoft: > > Poking around in the man pages seems to me to be a slow process, > especially for one who is new to the world of Perl. Has anyone > converted the man pages into the same kind of indexed help files

RE: Indexed man pages?

2002-12-12 Thread wiggins
> man man ;-) sorry every unix newbie must hear it at least once. perldoc perl perldoc perltoc As the other poster mentioned, the web interface to CPAN is handy. http://danconia.org On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 06:16:03 -0800 (PST), Rob Richardson <[EM

RE: Indexed man pages?

2002-12-12 Thread Beau E. Cox
Aloha => Beau. -Original Message- From: Rob Richardson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 4:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Indexed man pages? Greetings! Another question showing my heritage as a programmer in the world according to Microsoft: Poking around in t

Re: Indexed man pages?

2002-12-13 Thread David Eason
Apparently build 603 of ActiveState's version had exactly what you are asking for in HTMLHELP (.chm) format. It doesn't seem to be included anymore: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Perl/Products/ActivePerl/Changes.html If you want to try Beau's last suggestion, it may be easier than it sounds: ht

Re: Indexed man pages?

2002-12-16 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Hi Kipp, Actually, that is not the case. there is a TOC in the navigation [left] frame of the Active State help browser, but no interactive index or text search capabilities. Each serves a critical and time-saving purpose to the developer using them. The index listings come from markups by t