perldoc won't open

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Re: perldoc won't open by Joost (Canon) on Jul 31, 2007 at 19:17 UTC
I don't know anything about that tar ball (though I've had some issues with tar.gz and winzip - you may want to try true tar and gzip versions for windows), but since you're on windows, you could probably download and take home the installer for activestate perl. Besides a fully functioning core perl install, it also includes all of the perldoc manpages in HTML. And it's a free download. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re^2: perldoc won't open by Aim9b (Monk) on Jul 31, 2007 at 19:20 UTC
Thanks Joost...my newbie-ness is showing...I'm actually running AS, I just didn't realize this was the same doc. Thanks.	[reply]
Re^3: perldoc won't open by Joost (Canon) on Jul 31, 2007 at 19:27 UTC
I've just looked it up, and the perldoc.tar.gz from here contains indeed the same documentation as the docs from activestate - basically, it contains all the pod documentation included in the base perl install. Activestate's docs will include a bit more, since activestate includes a few additional (probably windows only) modules. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re: perldoc won't open by Aim9b (Monk) on Jul 31, 2007 at 20:11 UTC
FYL - From the "There's more that 1 way..." dept... I renamed the perldoc.tar.tar to perldoc.tgz (based on some previous perl surfing)& WinZip 8.0 opened it & found 1 file inside "perldoc.tar", I extracted it to a \perl_dev\doc folder & then Winzip extracted the 1,213 html/pdf/css/gif/js files. Drug a shortcut to my tool bar & I am good to go...home. Thanks, -Bill.	[reply]
Re: perldoc won't open by Popcorn Dave (Abbot) on Jul 31, 2007 at 19:19 UTC
You might try getting a copy of WinRAR. I believe that it will open .tar files. You can get a 30 day evaluation copy online, but I think it's about 3-4Mb in size. You should be fine from there. Also if you're running ActiveState Perl, they have html docs that you can access offline so you might look for that too. I'e actually put that in my Firefox toolbar for easy access. Revolution. Today, 3 O'Clock. Meet behind the monkey bars. I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code	[reply]
Re^2: perldoc won't open by Aim9b (Monk) on Jul 31, 2007 at 19:25 UTC
Thanks Dave. Yes, I have AS's doc on my tool bar. I was just reading about the camel books vs "others" & saw where someone implied that this file was good to have. Needing all the help I can get, I thought I'd grab it while I was here at work. Thanks again. -Bill.	[reply]
Re^3: perldoc won't open by Popcorn Dave (Abbot) on Jul 31, 2007 at 19:34 UTC
I'm a bit confused. If you've got ActiveState Perl installed at home and at work, then you've got all the docs you need in HTML format already. That said, their internal links don't always work for me, but YMMV. Besides that, when you add modules using PPM, you get the HTML docs added as well. Revolution. Today, 3 O'Clock. Meet behind the monkey bars. I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code	[reply]
Re^4: perldoc won't open by Aim9b (Monk) on Aug 01, 2007 at 15:26 UTC
Re^2: perldoc won't open by FunkyMonk (Bishop) on Jul 31, 2007 at 19:33 UTC
I believe that [WinRAR] will open .tar files Yes, WinRAR will open tar and gz files.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: perldoc won't open by mr_mischief (Monsignor) on Jul 31, 2007 at 20:52 UTC
As will 7zip,the tar and gzip from the Unix for Windows set, or the GNU software for Windows set of utils.	[reply]
Re: perldoc won't open by Argel (Prior) on Aug 01, 2007 at 00:13 UTC
Since others have covered the documentation I thought I would sugest you take a look at an excellent archiving program known as 7-Zip. It's freely available, released under the LPGL, and handles several file formats (Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR ; Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS). I don't even know why people pay for WinZIP or WinRAR anymore (as far as I know 7-zip gets better compression than RAR).	[reply]