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Tom Christiansen wrote: > What in the world would I type 10 characters instead of 3??? (*Why, I assume) Because there is no "man" equivalent of "perldoc -f". Because there is no "man" equivalent of "perldoc -q" (yes I don't use it personally either, but I *do* refer newbies to the FAQ pages, which still requires making sure the query finds what they need to know) Because there's no "man" equivalent of "perldoc -m" Because man can't read the pod prettily in a local file. Because you can alias perldoc to "pd" if you want to, so a number of characters argument is silly. Because man can't deal with documentation from multiple perl installations. There are plenty of reasons to prefer perldoc to man. Again, not arguing against man, but because of the multiple uses of perldoc I prefer to stick to one tool. (much like I stick to perl instead of hacking bash and awk and sed together). Matt.Thread Previous | Thread Next