Welcome to the CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network.
This document describes the contents of the CPAN, the Archive.
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README the main document
CPAN a large hyperlinked description of CPAN
ENDINGS what to do about files with weird endings
SITES the list of CPAN sites
RECENT the recent arrivals
ROADMAP this file
authors/ modules/extensions by author
clpa/ comp.lang.perl.announce USENET newsgroup archives
doc/ documentation
indices/ various index views of CPAN
misc/ miscellanea
modules/ modules/extensions
ports/ Perl binaries for all kinds of platforms
scripts/ do not reinvent the wheel if you can avoid it--
(please check whether someone somewhere has already
coded the script you are planning on writing)
NOTE! We are hoping to re-open the scripts in
the summer of 1998. Stay tuned for more news.
src/ source code and patches for Perl itself
and for some auxiliary utilities having to do with Perl
or using Perl in some way or another
