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From: [email protected] (Bill Middleton)
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Subject: PERLBOOK-5.005_02 - Complete PDF documentation for Perl available
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 Perlbook.pdf, the complete PDF documentation for Perl5.005_02 is
now (or soon) available at your nearest CPAN archive, as the file:

  authors/id/BMIDD/perlbook-5.005_02-a.tar.gz

this PDF file contains the entire standard documentation suite for
Perl5.  All of the standard perl modules which include embedded
Pod documentation, as well as the complete set of perl pods, along
with the various README files, INSTALL files, and documentation for
external programs which are part of the standard perl kit.

 Most of the hyperlinks which are available in the perl html documentation
can be accessed via PDF bookmarks (and links) in this document.
It includes a standard Acrobat bookmark for each pod, which can be
expanded to multiple levels to view the headers and main topics for
each document within.

 To view this document, you must have one of the Adobe Acrobat (tm)
tools, Acrobat Exchange, or Acrobat Reader.  Acrobat Reader is available
for no charge from the Adobe Systems, Inc. web site:

               http://www.adobe.com

 In previous versions this document has included an Acrobat Catalog (tm)
index of the entire document.  Unfortunately, I don't have the time to
continue to support that feature.  If you want an index, you'll have
to generate it yourself using AcroCat.

 This version also includes some additional documentation from various
modules which I use, and are quite popular, including libwww, DBD,
Sybperl, and the all-important Win32:: modules.  Find these under the
Additional Modules bookmark.

 If you have trouble extracting the PDF file from the TAR.GZ archive
file under Windows OS'en, you can grab a zipfile equivalent of the
archive at

       http://www.metronet.com/~wjm

but please, only use this server as a last resort.


Enjoy!


Bill Middleton
[email protected]



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