Just a final note about perldoc on Windows: I looked at some old comp.lang.perl.misc posts and found various comments about this. The problem seems to be that "v5.8.0 perldoc writes it's temp file as binary, so the end of line isn't adapted to the platform...Win98's more.com can't handle this" One solution is to install the module Pod::Perldoc which has its own Perldoc.pm and perldoc. Another solution is to: set PAGER="c:\program files\accessories\wordpad.exe" (This works and is rather nice in that one can move around in the output.) Finally, I once wrote the following script which is basically a wrapper around perldoc (it seems to cure the end of line problem and also saves the output in a file "tmp" which can be opened in an editor if desired): 
$args="";
while ($x=shift){$args.=" $x";}
$cmdstring=qq/perl -e "system \\\"perldoc $args\\\"" > tmp/;
system $cmdstring;
open F,"<tmp";
system "more tmp";

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(This can be made into a batch file using pl2bat.) It's perhaps a bit silly, but I use perldoc constantly, and was rather frustrated by the hard to read output. By the way, there doesn't seem to be a problem on later versions of Windows (e.g. XP.)
chas

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