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    Stefan Monnier sez....
    >
    > >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Ricketts <tr@oxlug.org> writes:
    > > But perl 5 has a perfectly good set of man pages.
    >
    > No. Perl is the quintessential example of a program whose manpages are mostly
    > unusable simply because the documentation is too big for the `man' way of
    > accessing it. If `man perl chop' worked, it would be OK, but it doesn't. An
    > indexed and hyperlinked manual is much more valuable for those kinds of
    > applications.
    >
    >
    But, when one combines the perl manpages with the Camel Book (which is
    always on the bookshelf right beside my console if not on my desk), that is
    a lot better then the info documentation. Less obfuscated to access.

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    Coy Hile
    hile@cse.psu.edu
    "Theirs not to reason why; theirs but to do...."
    Tennyson, "Charge of the Light Brigade"

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