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AnyDBM_File provide framework for multiple DBMs  UNAUTHORIZED  
AutoLoader load subroutines only on demand  UNAUTHORIZED  
AutoSplit split a package for autoloading  UNAUTHORIZED 1.0303
B The Perl Compiler  UNAUTHORIZED  
B::Asmdata Autogenerated data about Perl ops, used to generate bytecode  UNAUTHORIZED  
B::Assembler Assemble Perl bytecode  UNAUTHORIZED  
B::Bblock Walk basic blocks  UNAUTHORIZED  
B::Bytecode Perl compiler's bytecode backend  UNAUTHORIZED  
B::C Perl compiler's C backend  UNAUTHORIZED  
B::CC Perl compiler's optimized C translation backend  UNAUTHORIZED  
B::Debug Walk Perl syntax tree, printing debug info about ops  UNAUTHORIZED  
B::Deparse Perl compiler backend to produce perl code  UNAUTHORIZED 0.56
B::Disassembler Disassemble Perl bytecode  UNAUTHORIZED  
B::Lint Perl lint  UNAUTHORIZED  
B::Showlex Show lexical variables used in functions or files  UNAUTHORIZED  
B::Stackobj Helper module for CC backend  UNAUTHORIZED  
B::Terse Walk Perl syntax tree, printing terse info about ops  UNAUTHORIZED  
B::Xref Generates cross reference reports for Perl programs  UNAUTHORIZED  
Benchmark benchmark running times of code  UNAUTHORIZED  
CGI Simple Common Gateway Interface Class  UNAUTHORIZED 2.46
CGI::Apache Make things work with CGI.pm against Perl-Apache API  UNAUTHORIZED 1.1
CGI::Carp CGI routines for writing to the HTTPD (or other) error log  UNAUTHORIZED 1.13
CGI::Cookie Interface to Netscape Cookies  UNAUTHORIZED 1.06
CGI::Fast CGI Interface for Fast CGI  UNAUTHORIZED 1.01
CGI::Push Simple Interface to Server Push  UNAUTHORIZED 1.01
CGI::Switch Try more than one constructors and return the first object available  UNAUTHORIZED 0.06
CPAN query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites  UNAUTHORIZED 1.48
CPAN::FirstTime Utility for CPAN::Config file Initialization  UNAUTHORIZED 1.36
CPAN::Nox Wrapper around CPAN.pm without using any XS module  UNAUTHORIZED 1.00
Carp   UNAUTHORIZED  
Class::Struct declare struct-like datatypes as Perl classes  UNAUTHORIZED  
Cwd   UNAUTHORIZED 2.01
DB_File Perl5 access to Berkeley DB version 1.x  UNAUTHORIZED 1.65
Data::Dumper stringified perl data structures, suitable for both printing and eval  UNAUTHORIZED 2.101
Devel::SelfStubber generate stubs for a SelfLoading module  UNAUTHORIZED 1.01
DirHandle supply object methods for directory handles  UNAUTHORIZED  
Dumpvalue provides screen dump of Perl data.     
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::Command utilities to replace common UNIX commands in Makefiles etc.  UNAUTHORIZED 1.01
ExtUtils::Embed Utilities for embedding Perl in C/C++ applications  UNAUTHORIZED 1.2505
ExtUtils::Install install files from here to there  UNAUTHORIZED 1.28
ExtUtils::Installed Inventory management of installed modules  UNAUTHORIZED 0.02
ExtUtils::Liblist determine libraries to use and how to use them  UNAUTHORIZED 1.25
ExtUtils::MM_OS2 methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker  UNAUTHORIZED  
ExtUtils::MM_Unix methods used by ExtUtils::MakeMaker  UNAUTHORIZED 1.12602
ExtUtils::MM_VMS methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker  UNAUTHORIZED  
ExtUtils::MM_Win32 methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker  UNAUTHORIZED  
ExtUtils::MakeMaker create an extension Makefile  UNAUTHORIZED 5.4302
ExtUtils::Manifest utilities to write and check a MANIFEST file  UNAUTHORIZED 1.33
ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap make a bootstrap file for use by DynaLoader  UNAUTHORIZED 1.14
ExtUtils::Mksymlists write linker options files for dynamic extension  UNAUTHORIZED 1.17
ExtUtils::Packlist manage .packlist files  UNAUTHORIZED 0.03
ExtUtils::XSSymSet   UNAUTHORIZED 1.0
ExtUtils::testlib add blib/* directories to @INC  UNAUTHORIZED 1.11
Fatal replace functions with equivalents which succeed or die  UNAUTHORIZED 1.02
Fcntl load the C Fcntl.h defines  UNAUTHORIZED 1.03
File::Basename   UNAUTHORIZED 2.6
File::CheckTree   UNAUTHORIZED  
File::Compare Compare files or filehandles  UNAUTHORIZED 1.1001
File::Copy Copy files or filehandles  UNAUTHORIZED 2.02
File::DosGlob DOS like globbing and then some  UNAUTHORIZED  
File::Find   UNAUTHORIZED  
File::Path create or remove a series of directories  UNAUTHORIZED 1.0401
File::Spec portably perform operations on file names  UNAUTHORIZED 0.6
File::Spec::Mac File::Spec for MacOS  UNAUTHORIZED 1.0
File::Spec::OS2 methods for OS/2 file specs  UNAUTHORIZED  
File::Spec::Unix methods used by File::Spec  UNAUTHORIZED  
File::Spec::VMS methods for VMS file specs  UNAUTHORIZED  
File::Spec::Win32 methods for Win32 file specs  UNAUTHORIZED  
File::stat by-name interface to Perl's built-in stat() functions  UNAUTHORIZED  
FileCache keep more files open than the system permits  UNAUTHORIZED  
FileHandle supply object methods for filehandles  UNAUTHORIZED 2.00
FindBin Locate directory of original perl script    1.42
GDBM_File Perl5 access to the gdbm library.  UNAUTHORIZED 1.00
Getopt::Long   UNAUTHORIZED 2.19
Getopt::Std   UNAUTHORIZED 1.01
I18N::Collate compare 8-bit scalar data according to the current locale  UNAUTHORIZED  
IO load various IO modules     
IO::File supply object methods for filehandles    1.06021
IO::Handle supply object methods for I/O handles    1.1505
IO::Pipe     1.0902
IO::Seekable supply seek based methods for I/O objects    1.06
IO::Select OO interface to the select system call    1.10
IO::Socket Object interface to socket communications    1.1603
IPC::Msg SysV Msg IPC object class    1.00
IPC::Open2 open a process for both reading and writing  UNAUTHORIZED 1.01
IPC::Open3 open a process for reading, writing, and error handling  UNAUTHORIZED 1.0103
IPC::Semaphore SysV Semaphore IPC object class    1.00
IPC::SysV SysV IPC constants    1.03
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 1.26
Math::Trig trigonometric functions  UNAUTHORIZED 1
NDBM_File Tied access to ndbm files  UNAUTHORIZED 1.01
Net::Ping check a remote host for reachability  UNAUTHORIZED 2.02
Net::hostent by-name interface to Perl's built-in gethost*() functions  UNAUTHORIZED  
Net::netent by-name interface to Perl's built-in getnet*() functions  UNAUTHORIZED  
Net::protoent by-name interface to Perl's built-in getproto*() functions  UNAUTHORIZED  
Net::servent by-name interface to Perl's built-in getserv*() functions  UNAUTHORIZED  
O Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends  UNAUTHORIZED  
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 0.2
OS2::REXX access to DLLs with REXX calling convention and REXX runtime.  UNAUTHORIZED  
Opcode Disable named opcodes when compiling perl code  UNAUTHORIZED 1.04
POSIX Perl interface to IEEE Std 1003.1  UNAUTHORIZED 1.02
Pod::Functions   UNAUTHORIZED  
Pod::Html module to convert pod files to HTML  UNAUTHORIZED 1.01
Pod::Text convert POD data to formatted ASCII text  UNAUTHORIZED 1.0203
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 1.08
Shell run shell commands transparently within perl  UNAUTHORIZED  
Socket load the C socket.h defines and structure manipulators  UNAUTHORIZED 1.7
Symbol manipulate Perl symbols and their names  UNAUTHORIZED 1.02
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 provides a simple framework for writing test scripts  UNAUTHORIZED 1.122
Test::Harness run perl standard test scripts with statistics  UNAUTHORIZED 1.1602
Text::Abbrev   UNAUTHORIZED  
Text::ParseWords parse text into an array of tokens or array of arrays  UNAUTHORIZED 3.1
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 96.121201
Text::Wrap line wrapping to form simple paragraphs  UNAUTHORIZED 98.112902
Thread multithreading  UNAUTHORIZED 1.0
Thread::Queue thread-safe queues  UNAUTHORIZED  
Thread::Semaphore thread-safe semaphores  UNAUTHORIZED  
Thread::Signal Start a thread which runs signal handlers reliably  UNAUTHORIZED  
Thread::Specific thread-specific keys  UNAUTHORIZED  
Tie::Array base class for tied arrays  UNAUTHORIZED 1.00
Tie::Handle base class definitions for tied handles  UNAUTHORIZED  
Tie::Hash base class definitions for tied hashes  UNAUTHORIZED  
Tie::RefHash use references as hash keys  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  
Time::gmtime by-name interface to Perl's built-in gmtime() function  UNAUTHORIZED 1.01
Time::localtime by-name interface to Perl's built-in localtime() function  UNAUTHORIZED 1.01
Time::tm internal object used by Time::gmtime and Time::localtime  UNAUTHORIZED  
UNIVERSAL base class for ALL classes (blessed references)  UNAUTHORIZED  
User::grent by-name interface to Perl's built-in getgr*() functions  UNAUTHORIZED  
User::pwent by-name interface to Perl's built-in getpw*() functions  UNAUTHORIZED  
VMS::DCLsym Perl extension to manipulate DCL symbols  UNAUTHORIZED 1.01
VMS::Filespec convert between VMS and Unix file specification syntax  UNAUTHORIZED  
VMS::Stdio standard I/O functions via VMS extensions  UNAUTHORIZED 2.1
attrs set/get attributes of a subroutine  UNAUTHORIZED 1.0
autouse postpone load of modules until a function is used  UNAUTHORIZED 1.01
base Establish IS-A relationship with base class at compile time  UNAUTHORIZED  
blib Use MakeMaker's uninstalled version of a package  UNAUTHORIZED 1.00
constant Perl pragma to declare constants  UNAUTHORIZED 1.00
diagnostics Perl compiler pragma to force verbose warning diagnostics  UNAUTHORIZED  
fields compile-time class fields  UNAUTHORIZED 0.02
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  
locale Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for built-in operations  UNAUTHORIZED  
ops Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when compiling  UNAUTHORIZED  
overload Package for overloading perl operations  UNAUTHORIZED  
re Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour  UNAUTHORIZED 0.02
sigtrap Perl pragma to enable simple signal handling  UNAUTHORIZED 1.02
strict Perl pragma to restrict unsafe constructs  UNAUTHORIZED 1.01
subs Perl pragma to predeclare sub names  UNAUTHORIZED  
vars Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names  UNAUTHORIZED  
vmsish Perl pragma to control VMS-specific language features  UNAUTHORIZED  

Documentation

$orig $flavor 
Config access Perl configuration information 
DynaLoader Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code 
Errno System errno constants 
ExtUtils::Miniperl write the C code for perlmain.c 
GetOptions extended processing of command line options 
HISTORY public release history for Data::Dumper 
IO::pipe supply object methods for pipes 
Pumpkin Notes on handling the Perl Patch Pumpkin 
README.hints  
README.hpux Perl version 5 on Hewlett-Packard Unix (HP-UX) systems 
README.os390 building and installing Perl for OS/390. 
TODO seeds germane, yet not germinated 
Tie::StdHash base class definitions for tied hashes 
Tie::StdScalar base class definitions for tied scalars 
VMS::XSSymSet keep sets of symbol names palatable to the VMS linker 
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 
emacs/cperl-mode.el  
fileparse split a pathname into pieces 
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 
installhtml converts a collection of POD pages to HTML format. 
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 
patching.pod Appropriate format for patches to the perl source tree 
perl Practical Extraction and Report Language 
perlLoL Manipulating Lists of Lists in Perl 
perlXStut Tutorial for XSUBs 
perlamiga Perl under Amiga OS 
perlapio perl's IO abstraction interface. 
perlbook Perl book information 
perlbot Bag'o Object Tricks (the BOT) 
perlbug how to submit bug reports on Perl 
perlcall Perl calling conventions from C 
perlcc frontend for perl compiler 
perldata Perl data types 
perldebug Perl debugging 
perldelta what's new for perl5.004 
perldiag various Perl diagnostics 
perldoc Look up Perl documentation in pod format. 
perldos Perl under DOS, W31, W95. 
perldsc Perl Data Structures Cookbook 
perlembed how to embed perl in your C program 
perlfaq frequently asked questions about Perl ($Date: 1999/01/08 05:54:52 $) 
perlfaq1 General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.20 $, $Date: 1999/01/08 04:22:09 $) 
perlfaq2 Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.30 $, $Date: 1998/12/29 19:43:32 $) 
perlfaq3 Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.33 $, $Date: 1998/12/29 20:12:12 $) 
perlfaq4 Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.40 $, $Date: 1999/01/08 04:26:39 $) 
perlfaq5 Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.34 $, $Date: 1999/01/08 05:46:13 $) 
perlfaq6 Regexps ($Revision: 1.25 $, $Date: 1999/01/08 04:50:47 $) 
perlfaq7 Perl Language Issues ($Revision: 1.24 $, $Date: 1999/01/08 05:32:11 $) 
perlfaq8 System Interaction ($Revision: 1.36 $, $Date: 1999/01/08 05:36:34 $) 
perlfaq9 Networking ($Revision: 1.24 $, $Date: 1999/01/08 05:39:48 $) 
perlform Perl formats 
perlfunc Perl builtin functions 
perlglob.bat a more capable perlglob.exe replacement 
perlguts Perl's Internal Functions 
perlhist the Perl history records 
perlipc Perl interprocess communication (signals, fifos, pipes, safe subprocesses, sockets, and semaphores) 
perllocale Perl locale handling (internationalization and localization) 
perlmod Perl modules (packages and symbol tables) 
perlmodinstall Installing CPAN Modules 
perlmodlib constructing new Perl modules and finding existing ones 
perlobj Perl objects 
perlop Perl operators and precedence 
perlopentut tutorial on opening things in Perl 
perlos2 Perl under OS/2, DOS, Win0.3*, Win0.95 and WinNT. 
perlplan9 Plan 9-specific documentation for Perl 
perlpod plain old documentation 
perlport Writing portable Perl 
perlre Perl regular expressions 
perlref Perl references and nested data structures 
perlreftut Mark's very short tutorial about references 
perlrun how to execute the Perl interpreter 
perlsec Perl security 
perlstyle Perl style guide 
perlsub Perl subroutines 
perlsyn Perl syntax 
perlthrtut tutorial on threads in Perl 
perltie how to hide an object class in a simple variable 
perltoc perl documentation table of contents 
perltoot Tom's object-oriented tutorial for perl 
perltrap Perl traps for the unwary 
perlvar Perl predefined variables 
perlvms VMS-specific documentation for Perl 
perlwin32 Perl under Win32 
perlxs XS language reference manual 
pl2bat wrap perl code into a batch file 
pl2pm Rough tool to translate Perl4 .pl files to Perl5 .pm modules. 
pod2html convert .pod files to .html files 
pod2man translate embedded Perl pod directives into man pages 
pstruct Dump C structures as generated from cc -g -S stabs 
runperl.bat "universal" batch file to run perl scripts 
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.apollo
README.beos
README.cygwin32
README.hurd
README.mint
README.mpeix
README.plan9
README.qnx
README.threads
README.vms
README.vos
eg/README
eg/cgi/index.html
eg/sysvipc/README
ext/B/README
ext/DynaLoader/README
ext/IO/README
ext/IPC/SysV/README
ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/README
ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/README.too
ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/readme.ms
ext/Thread/README
h2pl/README
mint/README
vms/ext/DCLsym/0README.txt
vms/ext/Stdio/0README.txt