From: William Middleton Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 23:05:39 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Patch for perl.pod X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=69cddaa00596e831c0492189df41823d75a1b069;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Patch for perl.pod This didn't make it into 95. p5p-msgid: 199703262305.PAA13121@ducks --- diff --git a/pod/perl.pod b/pod/perl.pod index 2c1dde2..643c317 100644 --- a/pod/perl.pod +++ b/pod/perl.pod @@ -62,11 +62,25 @@ of sections: (If you're intending to read these straight through for the first time, the suggested order will tend to reduce the number of forward references.) -Additional documentation for Perl modules is available in the -F directory. Some of this is distributed standard with -Perl, but you'll also find third-party modules there. You should be able -to view this with your man(1) program by including the proper directories -in the appropriate start-up files. To find out where these are, type: +By default, all of the above manpages are installed in the +F directory. + +Extensive additional documentation for Perl modules is available, and +it's B to note that the default configuration for perl will +place this additional documentation in the F +directory, or in the directory named B<"man">, inside the default perl +library directory, also known as C<@INC>. + +Some of this additional documentation is distributed standard with +Perl, but you'll also find documentation for third-party modules there. +You should be able to view this with your man(1) program by including +the proper directories in the appropriate start-up files, or simply in +the UNIX environment variable, $MANPATH. To find out where the +configuration has installed these additional sections, type: + + perl -V:man3dir + +for the location of the default manpages, type: perl -V:man.dir