It's easy enough to perldoc from the command line, but when browsing files (from the Explorer or WinZip) for example, it would be nice to just read formatted POD.
assoc .pod=POD
:: The following will make the POD open in a vim window
:: (assuming your vim is gvim.exe)
ftype POD=cmd /c perldoc "%1" ^| gvim -
:: or, using my 'mo' pager for example...
ftype POD=cmd /c perldoc "%1" ^| mo