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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Question about Perl Post 37018 by criglerj on Tuesday 10th of June 2003 09:20:02 AM
Old 06-10-2003
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Almost everything about Perl is in the man pages. Start with "man perl" and follow the instructions there. If you want more tutorial-like instructions, start with Learning Perl, then go to the man pages.
 

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fvwm-perllib(1) 						  Fvwm Utilities						   fvwm-perllib(1)

NAME
fvwm-perllib - shows the documentation of the Fvwm Perl library SYNOPSIS
fvwm-perllib [ --help|-h|-? ] [ --version|-v|-V ] [ man [ Perl::Class ] ] [ cat [ Perl::Class ] ] [ raw [ Perl::Class ] ] [ dir ] DESCRIPTION
Starting from fvwm-2.5.x versions there is a built-in support for creating fvwm modules in Perl. This fvwm-perllib utility provides help services for the fvwm Perl library. OPTIONS
--help show the help and exit --version show the version and exit --man or man [ Perl::Class ] show manual page just like man(1) --cat or cat [ Perl::Class ] show manual page in plain text --raw or raw [ Perl::Class ] generate output in man format (not human readable) --dir or dir print perllib directory without a trailing end of line USAGE
Use this in the fvwm modules written in Perl: use lib `fvwm-perllib dir`; Introduction to the Fvwm Perl library: % fvwm-perllib man Manual page for the "FVWM::Module" class: % fvwm-perllib man FVWM::Module Standard options: % fvwm-perllib --help % fvwm-perllib --version AUTHORS
Mikhael Goikhman <migo@homemail.com>. COPYING
The script is distributed by the same terms as fvwm itself. See GNU General Public License for details. BUGS
No known bugs. Report bugs to fvwm-bug@fvwm.org. perl v5.8.0 2003-03-11 fvwm-perllib(1)
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