> Nearly every one of those is non-simple. That is not a tutorial, and it is not > just about open. It is more like "FMTEYEWTK About open() and I/O in Perl". If > the goal is to create a document that teaches people how to use open() for the > simple cases, then there is no hope for perlopentut. It cannot be turned into > that, because that is not what it is. You have to start over. +1 > Because perlopentut is more ETC than TUT, I suggest that the original > perlopentut be renamed to perlopenetc --and something else be written > from scratch to take its place. Why not simply 'perlopen'? There's ample precedence for 'perlfootut', 'perlfoo' documents. perldoc -f open should be much shorter and simply summarize the various arguments, and reference the other two, longer, documents. Karen Etheridge ether@cpan.orgThread Previous | Thread Next