Re: For Beginners: Basic Information Resources (or, Where to Look Things Up)
by Caillte (Friar) on Dec 14, 2001 at 21:27 UTC
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Activestate provide a nice HTML version of all the perldocs
with a link on the start|programs|Activestate perl menu.
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Re: For Beginners: Basic Information Resources (or, Where to Look Things Up)
by thunders (Priest) on Dec 14, 2001 at 22:32 UTC
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for windows you can:
- use perldoc
perldoc pageName-for man pages
perldoc ModuleName-for module documentation
perldoc -m ModuleName-for module code
perldoc -f functionName-function definitions
- Start->Programs->Perl->Documentation -Full HTML Documentation
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Between the ActiveSatate docs and the Perl CD bookshelf, I have a more than adequate perl library for most any programming projects.
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Re: For Beginners: Basic Information Resources (or, Where to Look Things Up)
by Moonie (Friar) on Dec 15, 2001 at 00:37 UTC
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Re: For Beginners: Basic Information Resources (or, Where to Look Things Up)
by blakem (Monsignor) on Dec 15, 2001 at 00:37 UTC
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perldoc.com is an excellent on-line collection of all sorts of perl documentation. For instance, it contains the documentation that comes with various versions of perl along with documentation for many of the optional modules as well.
-Blake
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Re: For Beginners: Basic Information Resources (or, Where to Look Things Up)
by Elvis (Sexton) on Dec 17, 2001 at 00:00 UTC
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Re: For Beginners: Basic Information Resources (or, Where to Look Things Up)
by ellem (Hermit) on Dec 16, 2001 at 05:57 UTC
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Hopefully things can stay this friendly. CLPMisc has gotten scary. Nearly to the point where nearly everything is flamebait. I hope this site can remain friendly to the newbie. Perl can only benefit from a good attitude towards newbies.
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I don't think I said it got any worse. I did say "gotten scary" which I suppose could be construed as getting worse and I don't care to fight over words. Scary/Worse OK. But seems to me since the "Knitting Female" changed to the "Tokyo Lizard" things have gotten, well, scarier. In no way is it related to "it" that "lives under bridges" but I merely use the above event as a time frame for when I noticed an attitude change.
I took a bus to school ;)
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Re: For Beginners: Basic Information Resources (or, Where to Look Things Up)
by thunders (Priest) on Dec 17, 2001 at 10:44 UTC
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I commented earlier on Activestate's HTML Documentation. I have Build 629 installed on my pc. I installed a more recent version on a friends pc and was dismayed to realize that they switched the HTML documentation from a large group of HTML files to a single .chm(compiled HTML) file. This might be a resonable move for some applications, but it does not work well with perl where new modules need to be added to the core distro. The old way, new package downloads would add HTML docs to a table of contents and make life easy, now you have to hunt through the directory tree. Anyway you can still download the old style documentation with a ppm command, But I wish that they didn't add this "improvement" by default. | [reply] [Watch: Dir/Any] |
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I hate this new compiled HTML doc. It has (last time I checked - and edited stylesheets) font size hardcoded, so you cannot increase it.
I am interested in your suggestion to load old-style docs using PPM. Do you mean ActiveState module manager? How to do that?
Also (I assume you are expert in ActiveState distro :-) ), some AS modules are quite obsolete. Are there any other sites with PPM archives? Thanks!
pmas
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