Whaddaya know, I'm doing this in 5.6 (I use ActiveState's Perl Development Kit to wrap my app up in a nice little (?) .exe file, and I forget whether I have to pay big bucks to upgrade it for 5.8.) That should be the ticket though.

Thanks,
Brig

UPDATE

I took a quick look at the PAR slideshow. Thanks for the pointer.

In the meantime, while upgrading Pod::Html should fix this particular problem, the deeper problem is my avoiding the problem of getting --title=title to work. On first reading the pod2html man page, my attempts at following the instructions failed, but considering the documentation from Pod::Html and its additional option of --backlink I realized that I wanted an automated (vs. command-line) solution to my problem of generating both .htm and .txt files anyway. And that another crack at --title was worthwhile.

Thus, I can put the following script in a folder that contains a program's *_Readme.pod file and put the package file someplace accessible like E:/aa/perl/lib. Double-clicking the script from Windows Explorer rebuilds the .htm and .txt files from whatever I've done with my .pod file. And now I get all those little 'Back to Top' links. :-)

# Creates Readme.htm and Readme.txt files from Readme.pod

use strict;
push @INC, 'E:/aa/perl/lib';
require 'podtools.pl';


my $pod_filename = 'BW_Readme.pod';   # filename of pod input 

my $htm_filename = 'BW_Readme.htm';   # filename of htm output 
my $title = 'BW123321™ Readme';       # title for the htm window;
                                      # ™ is actually the (TM) symbol

my $txt_filename = 'BW_Readme.txt';   # filename of txt output


podtools::pod2_htm_txt(
        $pod_filename,
        $htm_filename,
        $title,
        $txt_filename,
                );
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and the podtools.pl package file in my E:/aa/perl/lib folder:

package podtools;

use strict;
use Pod::Html;
use Pod::Text;

sub pod2_htm_txt {
    # Creates htm and txt files from a given pod file and htm title

    my (
        $pod_filename,
        $htm_filename,
        $title,
        $txt_filename,
            ) = @_;


    # Build the '.htm' file

    pod2html(
        "--infile=$pod_filename",
        "--outfile=$htm_filename",
        "--title=$title",
        '--backlink=Back to Top',     # implants backlink after =head1
            );



    # Build the '.txt' file

    my $parser = Pod::Text->new (
                        loose => 1, # prints blank lines after =head1
                        width => 78,
                        quotes => 'none',
                            );

    # Read POD from first file and write to second.
    $parser->parse_from_file ( $pod_filename, $txt_filename );

}

1;
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