I have various perls on my Windows machine, and I've noticed that the output from perldoc in versions 5.8.? is not formatted as nicely as that from perldoc in version 5.6.?. In the 5.8.? case, the output wraps across lines in a way that Unix/Linux files do in Windows (due to the difference in line termination.) I can send the output to a file and then read that which solves the problem, but I would prefer not to have to do that. I once modified an old perldoc to work in the newer versions, and that seemed to fix the problem, but I'm not sure that the modified perldoc works properly in all cases (the workings of perldoc are a little confusing to me...)
I was wondering if anyone has any comments/suggestions about all this. Thanks!
chas

In reply to Perldoc output differences by chas

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