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authorPerl 5 Porters <perl5-porters@africa.nicoh.com>1996-08-28 03:04:54 +0000
committerAndy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>1996-08-28 03:04:54 +0000
commit40fc72471c3eb4c35a6e8cb489f8ad622f023634 (patch)
treecef43e1808d0fb4a872ff14443f068703d6dd380 /utils
parentcf35f3c155e210961881a70e00e6132b04502e13 (diff)
downloadperl-40fc72471c3eb4c35a6e8cb489f8ad622f023634.tar.gz
perl 5.003_04: utils/perldoc.PL
Use col -x to filter out half-line feeds (ESC-9) from HP-UX nroff -man output. (col -x isn't portable -- SunOS doesn't support the -x option.)
Diffstat (limited to 'utils')
-rw-r--r--utils/perldoc.PL15
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/utils/perldoc.PL b/utils/perldoc.PL
index e53d542cb9..82e60add74 100644
--- a/utils/perldoc.PL
+++ b/utils/perldoc.PL
@@ -244,7 +244,11 @@ foreach (@found) {
close(TMP);
} elsif(not $opt_u) {
open(TMP,">>$tmp");
- $rslt = `pod2man $_ | nroff -man`;
+ if($^O =~ /hpux/) {
+ $rslt = `pod2man $_ | nroff -man | col -x`;
+ } else {
+ $rslt = `pod2man $_ | nroff -man`;
+ }
if ($Is_VMS) { $err = !($? % 2) || $rslt =~ /IVVERB/; }
else { $err = $?; }
print TMP $rslt unless $err;
@@ -293,10 +297,11 @@ B<perldoc> [B<-h>] [B<-v>] [B<-t>] [B<-u>] PageName|ModuleName|ProgramName
=head1 DESCRIPTION
-I<perldoc> looks up a piece of documentation in .pod format that is
-embedded in the perl installation tree or in a perl script, and displays
-it via pod2man | nroff -man | $PAGER. This is primarily used for the
-documentation for the perl library modules.
+I<perldoc> looks up a piece of documentation in .pod format that is embedded
+in the perl installation tree or in a perl script, and displays it via
+C<pod2man | nroff -man | $PAGER>. (In addition, if running under HP-UX,
+C<col -x> will be used.) This is primarily used for the documentation for
+the perl library modules.
Your system may also have man pages installed for those modules, in
which case you can probably just use the man(1) command.