Hello, I'm learning PAR::Packer, which comes with three scripts, pp, parl, and par.pl, which seem to have overlapping functionality. All three seem to be able to create .par archives.

pp seems analogous to "cc", where "pp -p" is like compiling, and "pp -o" is like linking.

parl/par.pl seems to be able to create and manipulate par archives, which is great. But it also seems to allow you to load and run par's, which seems redundant since you can already do that with PAR only, ie, "perl -MPAR=./foo.par". I can't tell what the difference between parl and par.pl is.

Please unconfuse me.