Hi

Your terminal/pager is different than expected by perldoc.

This can be configured as an option at startup or with various ENV variables named PERLDOC*.

I'd recommend reading this recent threads perldoc Bold, Italic etc, especially Re: perldoc Bold, Italic etc (updated) and of course the linked docs.

My guess perldoc -oman should fix it.

Update

> (By the way, I occasionally see this same behaviour with other POD documentation from other sources, but it is thankfully rare...

This sounds like an encoding issue or (less likely) OS specific line ending.

Please compare those files to find the differences.

update

perldoc -l shows the path

perldoc -m will cat original code

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

In reply to Re: Binary File warning when using POD documentation by LanX
in thread [SOLVED]: Binary File warning when using POD documentation by amcleod

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