From 69cddaa00596e831c0492189df41823d75a1b069 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: William Middleton Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:05:39 -0800 Subject: Patch for perl.pod This didn't make it into 95. p5p-msgid: 199703262305.PAA13121@ducks --- pod/perl.pod | 24 +++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/pod/perl.pod b/pod/perl.pod index 2c1dde2039..643c31734c 100644 --- a/pod/perl.pod +++ b/pod/perl.pod @@ -62,11 +62,25 @@ of sections: (If you're intending to read these straight through for the first time, the suggested order will tend to reduce the number of forward references.) -Additional documentation for Perl modules is available in the -F directory. Some of this is distributed standard with -Perl, but you'll also find third-party modules there. You should be able -to view this with your man(1) program by including the proper directories -in the appropriate start-up files. To find out where these are, type: +By default, all of the above manpages are installed in the +F directory. + +Extensive additional documentation for Perl modules is available, and +it's B to note that the default configuration for perl will +place this additional documentation in the F +directory, or in the directory named B<"man">, inside the default perl +library directory, also known as C<@INC>. + +Some of this additional documentation is distributed standard with +Perl, but you'll also find documentation for third-party modules there. +You should be able to view this with your man(1) program by including +the proper directories in the appropriate start-up files, or simply in +the UNIX environment variable, $MANPATH. To find out where the +configuration has installed these additional sections, type: + + perl -V:man3dir + +for the location of the default manpages, type: perl -V:man.dir -- cgit v1.2.1