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Old 05-17-2017
Thank you @bakunin, now I understand the difference but it's funny because if I type gmake it works... lol
 

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Text::Lorem(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					  Text::Lorem(3pm)

NAME
Text::Lorem - Generate random Latin looking text SYNOPSIS
use Text::Lorem; my $text = Text::Lorem->new(); # Generate a string of text with 5 words $words = $text->words(5); # Generate a string of text with 2 sentences $sentences = $text->sentences(2); # Generate 3 paragraphs $paragraphs = $text->paragraphs(3); DESCRIPTION
Often when developing a website or other application it's important to have placeholders for content. This module generates prescribed amounts of fake Latin text. CONSTRUCTOR
"new()" The default constructor, "new()" takes no arguments and returns a Text::Lorem object. METHODS
"words( INTEGER )" Returns INTEGER fake Latin words. "sentences( INTEGER )" Returns INTEGER sentences in fake Latin. "paragraphs( INTEGER )" Returns INTEGER paragraphs of fake Latin text. THANKS
Thanks to the guys who pushed me off the cliff called comfort and into the scary world of Perl: James Duncan, Leon Brocard. AUTHOR
Adeola Awoyemi (adeola@fotango.com) SEE ALSO
L<WWW::Lipsum> and L<http://lipsum.com/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2003 Fotango Ltd. All rights reserved. <http://opensource.fotango.com/> This software is released under the same license as Perl itself. perl v5.10.1 2011-01-05 Text::Lorem(3pm)
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