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Marc Silver <marcs@draenor.org> wrote:

> I may be wrong, but I always assumed that these man pages were part of the
> Perl package themselves and as such, not maintained by FreeBSD-doc.
> 
> That said, since Perl has a reputation for performing any single task in
> many different ways, it seems quite fitting that there is no one
> explanation.  :)

TMTOWTDI indeed!

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Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net>