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<sect2><title>Contents of Perl</title>

<para>Last checked against version &perl-contversion;.</para>

<sect3><title>Program Files</title>
<para>a2p, c2ph, dprofpp, find2perl, h2ph, h2xs, perl, perl5.6.1,
perlbug, perlcc, perldoc, pl2pm, pod2html, pod2latex, pod2man, pod2text,
pod2usage, podchecker, podselect, pstruct, s2p and splain</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>Descriptions</title>

<sect4><title>a2p</title>
<para>a2p is an awk to perl translator.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>c2ph</title>
<para>c2ph dumps C structures as generated from "cc -g -S" stabs.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>dprofpp</title>
<para>dprofpp displays perl profile data.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>find2perl</title>
<para>find2perl translates find command lines to Perl code.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>h2ph</title>
<para>h2ph converts .h C header files to .ph Perl header files.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>h2xs</title>
<para>h2xs converts .h C header files to Perl extensions.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>perl, perl5.6.1</title>
<para>perl is the Practical Extraction and Report Language.  It combines
some of the best features of C, sed, awk, and sh into one powerful
language.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>perlbug</title>
<para>perlbug helps to generate bug reports about perl or the
modules that come with it, and mail them.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>perlcc</title>
<para>perlcc generates executables from Perl programs.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>perldoc</title>
<para>perldoc looks up a piece of documentation in .pod format that is
embedded in the perl installation tree or in a perl script, and displays it 
via "pod2man | nroff -man | $PAGER".</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>pl2pm</title>
<para>pl2pm is a tool to aid in the conversion of Perl4-style .pl library 
files to Perl5-style library modules.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>pod2html</title>
<para>pod2html converts files from pod format to HTML format.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>pod2latex</title>
<para>pod2latex converts files from pod format to LaTeX format.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>pod2man</title>
<para>pod2man converts pod data to formatted *roff input.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>pod2text</title>
<para>pod2text converts pod data to formatted ASCII text.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>pod2usage</title>
<para>pod2usage prints usage messages from embedded pod docs in 
files.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>podchecker</title>
<para>podchecker checks the syntax of pod format documentation 
files.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>podselect</title>
<para>podselect prints selected sections of pod documentation on
standard output.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>pstruct</title>
<para>pstruct dumps C structures as generated from "cc -g -S" 
stabs.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>s2p</title>
<para>s2p is a sed to perl translator.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>splain</title>
<para>splain is a program to force verbose warning diagnostics 
in perl.</para></sect4>

</sect3>

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