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AnyDBM_File provide framework for multiple DBMs  UNAUTHORIZED  
AutoLoader load functions only on demand  UNAUTHORIZED  
AutoSplit split a package for autoloading  UNAUTHORIZED  
Benchmark benchmark running times of code  UNAUTHORIZED  
Carp   UNAUTHORIZED  
Cwd   UNAUTHORIZED  
DB_File Perl5 access to Berkeley DB  UNAUTHORIZED 1.03
Devel::SelfStubber generate stubs for a SelfLoading module  UNAUTHORIZED 1.01
DirHandle supply object methods for directory handles  UNAUTHORIZED  
DynaLoader Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code  UNAUTHORIZED 1.00
English use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation variables  UNAUTHORIZED  
Env perl module that imports environment variables  UNAUTHORIZED  
Exporter Implements default import method for modules  UNAUTHORIZED  
ExtUtils::Embed Utilities for embedding Perl in C/C++ applications  UNAUTHORIZED 1.18
ExtUtils::Install install files from here to there  UNAUTHORIZED 1.15
ExtUtils::Liblist determine libraries to use and how to use them  UNAUTHORIZED 1.20
ExtUtils::MM_OS2 methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker  UNAUTHORIZED  
ExtUtils::MM_Unix methods used by ExtUtils::MakeMaker  UNAUTHORIZED 1.107
ExtUtils::MM_VMS methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker  UNAUTHORIZED  
ExtUtils::MakeMaker create an extension Makefile  UNAUTHORIZED 5.38
ExtUtils::Manifest utilities to write and check a MANIFEST file  UNAUTHORIZED 1.27
ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap make a bootstrap file for use by DynaLoader  UNAUTHORIZED 1.13
ExtUtils::Mksymlists write linker options files for dynamic extension  UNAUTHORIZED 1.12
ExtUtils::testlib add blib/* directories to @INC  UNAUTHORIZED 1.11
Fatal replace functions with equivalents which succeed or die  UNAUTHORIZED  
Fcntl load the C Fcntl.h defines  UNAUTHORIZED 1.00
File::Basename parse file specifications  UNAUTHORIZED 2.4
File::CheckTree   UNAUTHORIZED  
File::Copy Copy files or filehandles  UNAUTHORIZED 1.5
File::Find   UNAUTHORIZED  
File::Path create or remove a series of directories  UNAUTHORIZED 1.01
FileCache keep more files open than the system permits  UNAUTHORIZED  
FileHandle supply object methods for filehandles  UNAUTHORIZED 1.00
FindBin Locate directory of original perl script  UNAUTHORIZED 1.04
GDBM_File Perl5 access to the gdbm library.  UNAUTHORIZED 1.00
Getopt::Long   UNAUTHORIZED 2.04
Getopt::Std   UNAUTHORIZED  
I18N::Collate compare 8-bit scalar data according to the current locale  UNAUTHORIZED  
IO load various IO modules  UNAUTHORIZED  
IO::File supply object methods for filehandles  UNAUTHORIZED 1.05
IO::Handle supply object methods for I/O handles  UNAUTHORIZED 1.12
IO::Pipe   UNAUTHORIZED 1.07
IO::Seekable supply seek based methods for I/O objects  UNAUTHORIZED 1.05
IO::Select OO interface to the select system call  UNAUTHORIZED 1.09
IO::Socket Object interface to socket communications  UNAUTHORIZED 1.13
IPC::Open2 open a process for both reading and writing  UNAUTHORIZED  
IPC::Open3 open a process for reading, writing, and error handling  UNAUTHORIZED  
Math::BigFloat Arbitrary length float math package  UNAUTHORIZED  
Math::BigInt Arbitrary size integer math package  UNAUTHORIZED  
Math::Complex complex numbers and associated mathematical functions  UNAUTHORIZED  
NDBM_File Tied access to ndbm files  UNAUTHORIZED 1.00
Net::Ping check a host for upness  UNAUTHORIZED 1.01
ODBM_File Tied access to odbm files  UNAUTHORIZED 1.00
OS2::ExtAttr Perl access to extended attributes.  UNAUTHORIZED 0.01
OS2::PrfDB Perl extension for access to OS/2 setting database.  UNAUTHORIZED 0.02
OS2::Process exports constants for system() call on OS2.  UNAUTHORIZED  
OS2::REXX access to DLLs with REXX calling convention and REXX runtime.  UNAUTHORIZED  
Opcode Disable named opcodes when compiling perl code  UNAUTHORIZED 1.01
POSIX Perl interface to IEEE Std 1003.1  UNAUTHORIZED 1.00
Pod::Functions   UNAUTHORIZED  
Pod::Text convert POD data to formatted ASCII text  UNAUTHORIZED  
SDBM_File Tied access to sdbm files  UNAUTHORIZED 1.00
Safe Compile and execute code in restricted compartments  UNAUTHORIZED 2.06
Search::Dict search for key in dictionary file  UNAUTHORIZED  
SelectSaver save and restore selected file handle  UNAUTHORIZED  
SelfLoader load functions only on demand  UNAUTHORIZED 1.06
Shell run shell commands transparently within perl  UNAUTHORIZED  
Socket load the C socket.h defines and structure manipulators  UNAUTHORIZED 1.5
Symbol manipulate Perl symbols and their names  UNAUTHORIZED  
Sys::Hostname Try every conceivable way to get hostname  UNAUTHORIZED  
Sys::Syslog Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls  UNAUTHORIZED  
Term::Cap Perl termcap interface  UNAUTHORIZED  
Term::Complete Perl word completion module  UNAUTHORIZED  
Term::ReadLine Perl interface to various readline packages. If no real package is found, substitutes stubs instead of basic functions.  UNAUTHORIZED  
Test::Harness run perl standard test scripts with statistics  UNAUTHORIZED 1.13
Text::Abbrev   UNAUTHORIZED  
Text::ParseWords parse text into an array of tokens  UNAUTHORIZED  
Text::Soundex Implementation of the Soundex Algorithm as Described by Knuth  UNAUTHORIZED  
Text::Tabs expand and unexpand tabs per the unix expand(1) and unexpand(1)  UNAUTHORIZED 96.051501
Text::Wrap line wrapping to form simple paragraphs  UNAUTHORIZED 96.041801
Tie::Hash base class definitions for tied hashes  UNAUTHORIZED  
Tie::Scalar base class definitions for tied scalars  UNAUTHORIZED  
Tie::SubstrHash Fixed-table-size, fixed-key-length hashing  UNAUTHORIZED  
Time::Local efficiently compute time from local and GMT time  UNAUTHORIZED  
UNIVERSAL base class for ALL classes (blessed references)  UNAUTHORIZED  
VMS::Filespec convert between VMS and Unix file specification syntax  UNAUTHORIZED  
VMS::Stdio   UNAUTHORIZED 2.0
diagnostics Perl compiler pragma to force verbose warning diagnostics  UNAUTHORIZED  
integer Perl pragma to compute arithmetic in integer instead of double  UNAUTHORIZED  
less perl pragma to request less of something from the compiler  UNAUTHORIZED  
lib manipulate @INC at compile time  UNAUTHORIZED  
ops Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when compiling  UNAUTHORIZED  
overload Package for overloading perl operations  UNAUTHORIZED  
sigtrap Perl pragma to enable simple signal handling  UNAUTHORIZED 1.01
strict Perl pragma to restrict unsafe constructs  UNAUTHORIZED  
subs Perl pragma to predeclare sub names  UNAUTHORIZED  
vars Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names  UNAUTHORIZED  

Documentation

$orig $flavor 
Config access Perl configuration information 
ExtUtils::Miniperl write the C code for perlmain.c 
GetOptions extended processing of command line options 
IO::pipe supply object methods for pipes 
Tie::StdHash base class definitions for tied hashes 
Tie::StdScalar base class definitions for tied scalars 
a2p Awk to Perl translator 
abbrev create an abbreviation table from a list 
c2ph Dump C structures as generated from cc -g -S stabs 
carp warn of errors (from perspective of caller) 
closelog Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls 
find traverse a file tree 
getcwd get pathname of current working directory 
getopt Process single-character switches with switch clustering 
h2ph convert .h C header files to .ph Perl header files 
h2xs convert .h C header files to Perl extensions 
inet_aton load the C socket.h defines and structure manipulators 
inet_ntoa load the C socket.h defines and structure manipulators 
look search for key in dictionary file 
makeaperl create a new perl binary from static extensions 
open2 open a process for both reading and writing 
open3 open a process for reading, writing, and error handling 
openlog Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls 
perl Practical Extraction and Report Language 
perl18n Perl i18n (internalization) 
perlLoL Manipulating Lists of Lists in Perl 
perlXStut Tutorial for XSUBs 
perlbook Perl book information 
perlbot Bag'o Object Tricks (the BOT) 
perlcall Perl calling conventions from C 
perldata Perl data types 
perldebug Perl debugging 
perldiag various Perl diagnostics 
perldoc Look up Perl documentation in pod format. 
perldsc Perl Data Structures Cookbook 
perlembed how to embed perl in your C program 
perlform Perl formats 
perlfunc Perl builtin functions 
perlguts Perl's Internal Functions 
perlio perl's IO abstraction interface. 
perlipc Perl interprocess communication (signals, fifos, pipes, safe subprocesses, sockets, and semaphores) 
perlmod Perl modules (packages) 
perlobj Perl objects 
perlop Perl operators and precedence 
perlos2 Perl under OS/2, Win0.31, Win0.95 and WinNT. 
perlovl overload perl mathematical functions [superseded] 
perlplan9 Plan 9-specific documentation for Perl 
perlpod plain old documentation 
perlre Perl regular expressions 
perlref Perl references and nested data structures 
perlrun how to execute the Perl interpreter 
perlsec Perl security 
perlstyle Perl style guide 
perlsub Perl subroutines 
perlsyn Perl syntax 
perltie how to hide an object class in a simple variable 
perltoc perl documentation table of contents 
perltrap Perl traps for the unwary 
perlvar Perl predefined variables 
perlvms VMS-specific documentation for Perl 
perlxs XS language reference manual 
pingecho check a host for upness 
pl2pm Rough tool to translate Perl4 .pl files to Perl5 .pm modules. 
pod2man translate embedded Perl pod directives into man pages 
pstruct Dump C structures as generated from cc -g -S stabs 
s2p Sed to Perl translator 
setlogmask Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls 
sockaddr_in load the C socket.h defines and structure manipulators 
sockaddr_un load the C socket.h defines and structure manipulators 
syslog Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls 
validate run many filetest checks on a tree 
writemain write the C code for perlmain.c 
xsubpp compiler to convert Perl XS code into C code 

Other Files

README.plan9
README.vms
eg/README
eg/sysvipc/README
ext/DynaLoader/README
ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/README
ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/README.too
ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/readme.ms
h2pl/README
hints/README.NeXT
hints/README.hints
vms/ext/Stdio/0README.txt