Bug 42034 - perl's perltoc manpage is useless
Summary: perl's perltoc manpage is useless
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: perl
Version: 7.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Chip Turner
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-05-23 20:18 UTC by Mike A. Harris
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:33 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2001-12-06 21:25:13 UTC
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Description Mike A. Harris 2001-05-23 20:18:34 UTC
Description of Problem:  The perltoc manpage is totally garbled.


How Reproducible:  Only on days of the week ending in y


Steps to Reproduce:
1. man perltoc

Actual Results:  Total garbage is displayed by man


Expected Results:  The perltoc manpage in easily readable format like
other manpages


Additional Information:  This wizard thing is a bit overboard for
some bugs (ie this one), but nonetheless has a humorous aspect.  ;o)

Comment 1 David Lawrence 2001-05-23 20:31:17 UTC
This seems to format fine when using the perldoc command instead of man. 

Example:

perldoc perltoc
man perltoc

These offer two different formats. Seems like man is not registering properly
certain characters such as new lines, etc.

Comment 2 Chip Turner 2001-12-19 08:31:28 UTC
this is possibly a bug in pod2man.  a more recent version ships with perl 5.6.1,
which is now in rawhide.  both perldoc and man to view perltoc works for me with
this rpm


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