I'm using POD on Activestate Perl for NT. In the POD docs, Larry writes 
In particular, you can leave things like this verbatim in your text:

    Perl
    FILEHANDLE
    $variable
    function()
    manpage(3r)

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From this sentence, it sounds like POD should put things that look like functions and variables in fixed font automatically. I'm not getting this behavior. Here's a chunk of my POD : 

=item blah blah

The program C<< getdata.pl >> pulls data
 from the database on blah blah blah. The program 
creates a data
structure $IDVC and stores it
in  C<< dsave-IDVC.txt >> using
L<Storable|"PORTABILITY">.

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My issue is that  $IVDC isn't put into fixed font.

What am I doing wrong here? Do I need to wrap every variable in C < > tags? Thanks.

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