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