Re: Binary File warning when using POD documentation

[LanX]

Hi

Your terminal/pager is different than expected by perldoc.

This can be configured as an option at startup or with various ENV variables named PERLDOC*.

I'd recommend reading this recent threads perldoc Bold, Italic etc, especially Re: perldoc Bold, Italic etc (updated) and of course the linked docs.

My guess perldoc -oman should fix it.

Update

> (By the way, I occasionally see this same behaviour with other POD documentation from other sources, but it is thankfully rare...

This sounds like an encoding issue or (less likely) OS specific line ending.

Please compare those files to find the differences.

update

perldoc -l shows the path

perldoc -m will cat original code

[amcleod]

After reading through the references you suggested and trying various proposed solutions, I corrected the issue by inserting

export PERLDOC_PAGER="less -isR"

into my ~/.bashrc file. Now I will attempt to mark this as "SOLVED".

[LanX]

Glad it helped! :)

Actually perldoc should work out of the box on every *nix OS. And your random results look weird.

But of course there are plenty of ways to mess up.

If you are curious to find out, you might consider running tests with -D and PERLDOCDEBUG set to a positiv value