From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 9 06:37:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA18414 for current-outgoing; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 06:37:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA18404 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 06:37:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id PAA02574 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 15:37:26 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.6.12) with UUCP id PAA02157 for freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 15:36:58 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.5/keltia-uucp-2.9) id PAA27024; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 15:36:32 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <19970209153631.SO02083@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 15:36:31 +0100 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.0-970124-SNAP: man page search order References: <10128.855488661@critter.dk.tfs.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60,1-3,9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#2999 In-Reply-To: ; from J Wunsch on Feb 9, 1997 14:55:36 +0100 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to J Wunsch: > Not really. The syntax description is the smaller part of the Perl > man page. The description of the various functions is much fatter. And Perl5 has solved this problem by dividing the old-fat manpage into several manpages by subject... perl Perl overview (this section) perldelta Perl changes since previous version perldata Perl data structures perlsyn Perl syntax perlop Perl operators and precedence perlre Perl regular expressions perlrun Perl execution and options perlfunc Perl builtin functions perlvar Perl predefined variables perlsub Perl subroutines perlmod Perl modules perlform Perl formats perllocale Perl locale support perlref Perl references perldsc Perl data structures intro perllol Perl data structures: lists of lists perltoot Perl OO tutorial perlobj Perl objects perltie Perl objects hidden behind simple variables perlbot Perl OO tricks and examples perlipc Perl interprocess communication perldebug Perl debugging perldiag Perl diagnostic messages perlsec Perl security perltrap Perl traps for the unwary perlstyle Perl style guide perlpod Perl plain old documentation perlbook Perl book information perlembed Perl how to embed perl in your C or C++ app perlapio Perl internal IO abstraction interface perlxs Perl XS application programming interface perlxstut Perl XS tutorial perlguts Perl internal functions for those doing extensions perlcall Perl calling conventions from C -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #39: Sun Feb 2 22:12:44 CET 1997