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Craig Berry wrote: !At 10:48 AM -0400 5/30/02, Brian Tillman wrote: !> >>%DCL-W-IVVERB, unrecognized command verb - check validity and spelling !>>> \MOST\ !>>>%DCL-W-IVVERB, unrecognized command verb - check validity and spelling !>>> \MORE\ !>>>%DCL-W-IVVERB, unrecognized command verb - check validity and spelling !>>> \LESS\ !>> !>>You're stuck with those unless you install one of the paging programs it's !>>looking for or define the logical PERLDOC_PAGER. For example, !>> !>>$ define perldoc_pager "edit/tpu/readonly/nojournal" !> !>But when I built Perl, it asked me what my pager was and I said "type/page". !>Why did it ask, if it was going to ignore my answer? ! !Good question. The search order doesn't seem quite right to me !either, but I haven't found time to fix it. I think that the answer to the question is that it was merely an accident of history. perldoc was written long before there was a pager question in the Bourne shell version of Configure. After it was added someone (Tom Christiansen) complained that VMS' config.pm was broken since it did not indicate the pager of preference on a VMS system (where, like unix there is a choice). Hence the pager question was added to configure.com but the necessary cleanup and rewrite of perldoc was never submitted to the perl codeline. Hence it is a bug fix waiting to happen. By the way it seems that MOST is having trouble compiling under Compaq C 6.5 and is in dire need of some updating too. Peter PrymmerThread Previous