It sounds as if you have ideas on how to improve the Perl
documentation. I heartily encourage you to contribute your
improvements by means of the perlbug program, which comes with Perl. A
patch to the .pod files is generally the best way to contribute
documentation.
Maybe I'll just buy a good reference book. ;-)
-r
Russell J. Foster
Systems Management Consultant
rjf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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