in reply to Long script names and POD

The first line is not corrupted for me: 
SOMEWHATLONGNAME(1)   User Contributed Perl Documentation  SOMEWHATLON
+GNAME(1)



NAME
          SomewhatLongName.pod - This is a test

SYNOPSIS
           This is the synopsis



perl v5.12.2                      2013-07-08               SOMEWHATLON
+GNAME(1)

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You are using an old version of Perl. Perhaps the bug you are seeing has been fixed since.

perldoc converts the script name to all caps for me, too. I can't remember it ever behaving differently. On linux, even built-in commands, like ls show up in caps. Perl is consistent with that: 

man ls

LS(1)                            User Commands                        
+   LS(1)

NAME
       ls - list directory contents

SYNOPSIS
       ls [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION
       List  information  about  the FILEs (the current directory by d
+efault).  Sort
       entries alphabetically if none of -cftuvSUX nor --sort.

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Re^2: Long script names and POD
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 08, 2013 at 20:25 UTC
    Seems like I have 5.8.0 which is not that old. May be the bug was there with that version?

    When I do a 

    perl -v

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    I get the following 
    This is perl, v5.8.0 built for i586-linux-thread-multi
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)
....

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      Seems like I have 5.8.0 which is not that old
      perlhist lists 5.8.0 as 11 years old. There have been 5 major releases since (5.10, 5.12, ... 5.18). Your version is old.
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        Thanks
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