[673b0d8] | 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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[c2133bc] | 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
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[673b0d8] | 3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 4 | %general-entities;
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| 5 | ]>
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[752f4e5] | 6 | <sect1 id="ch-system-perl" role="wrap">
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[673b0d8] | 7 | <title>Perl-&perl-version;</title>
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| 8 | <?dbhtml filename="perl.html"?>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl"><primary sortas="a-Perl">Perl</primary></indexterm>
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[6370fa6] | 11 |
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[a001133] | 12 | <sect2 role="package"><title/>
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[5888299] | 13 | <para>The Perl package contains the Practical Extraction and Report Language.</para>
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| 14 |
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[a001133] | 15 | <segmentedlist>
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| 16 | <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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| 17 | <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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| 18 | <seglistitem><seg>2.9 SBU</seg><seg>143 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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| 19 | </segmentedlist>
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[3554fa3a] | 20 |
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[a001133] | 21 | <segmentedlist>
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[a0e1913] | 22 | <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
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[a001133] | 23 | <seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
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[69993f4] | 24 | Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
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[a001133] | 25 | </segmentedlist>
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| 26 | </sect2>
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[5888299] | 27 |
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[a001133] | 28 | <sect2 role="installation">
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[73aedd1d] | 29 | <title>Installation of Perl</title>
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| 30 |
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[ef13657] | 31 | <para>To have full control over the way Perl is set up, run the
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| 32 | interactive <command>Configure</command> script and hand-pick the way
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| 33 | this package is built. If the defaults it auto-detects are suitable,
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| 34 | prepare Perl for compilation with:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 35 |
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[5a4b3da] | 36 | <screen><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr -Dpager="/bin/less -isR"</userinput></screen>
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[73aedd1d] | 37 |
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[bcd0ce7] | 38 | <para>The meaning of the configure option:</para>
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[05073f6] | 39 |
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[df8334f] | 40 | <variablelist>
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| 41 | <varlistentry>
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[8ad7980] | 42 | <term><parameter>-Dpager="/bin/less -isR"</parameter></term>
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| 43 | <listitem><para>This corrects an error in the <command>perldoc</command> code with the invocation
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| 44 | of the <command>less</command> program.</para></listitem>
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[df8334f] | 45 | </varlistentry>
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| 46 | </variablelist>
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[5a4b3da] | 47 |
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[73aedd1d] | 48 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 49 |
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| 50 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 51 |
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[ef13657] | 52 | <para>To run the test suite, first create a basic
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| 53 | <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file which is needed by a couple of
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| 54 | tests to resolve the network name localhost:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 55 |
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| 56 | <screen><userinput>echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" > /etc/hosts</userinput></screen>
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| 57 |
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[ef13657] | 58 | <para>Now run the tests, if desired:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 59 |
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| 60 | <screen><userinput>make test</userinput></screen>
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| 61 |
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[ef13657] | 62 | <para>Install the package:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 63 |
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| 64 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 65 |
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| 66 | </sect2>
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[6370fa6] | 67 |
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[5888299] | 68 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 69 | <sect2 id="contents-perl" role="content"><title>Contents of Perl</title>
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[673b0d8] | 70 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 71 | <segmentedlist>
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| 72 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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| 73 | <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
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| 74 | <seglistitem><seg>a2p, c2ph, dprofpp, enc2xs,
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[673b0d8] | 75 | find2perl, h2ph, h2xs, libnetcfg, perl, perl&perl-version; (link to perl),
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| 76 | perlbug, perlcc, perldoc, perlivp, piconv, pl2pm, pod2html, pod2latex, pod2man,
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| 77 | pod2text, pod2usage, podchecker, podselect, psed (link to s2p), pstruct (link
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[69993f4] | 78 | to c2ph), s2p, splain, and xsubpp</seg>
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| 79 | <seg>Several hundred which cannot all be listed here</seg></seglistitem>
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[c6cb3aa] | 80 | </segmentedlist>
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[673b0d8] | 81 |
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[2256873] | 82 | <variablelist><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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[3ed279f] | 83 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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[c5f9180] | 84 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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[673b0d8] | 85 |
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[b8a819f] | 86 | <varlistentry id="a2p">
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| 87 | <term><command>a2p</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 88 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 89 | <para>Translates awk to Perl</para>
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[3ed279f] | 90 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl a2p"><primary sortas="b-a2p">a2p</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 91 | </listitem>
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| 92 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 93 |
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[b8a819f] | 94 | <varlistentry id="c2ph">
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| 95 | <term><command>c2ph</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 96 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 97 | <para>Dumps C structures as generated from <command>cc -g -S</command></para>
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[3ed279f] | 98 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl c2ph"><primary sortas="b-c2ph">c2ph</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 99 | </listitem>
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| 100 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 101 |
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[b8a819f] | 102 | <varlistentry id="dprofpp">
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| 103 | <term><command>dprofpp</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 104 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 105 | <para>Displays Perl profile data</para>
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[3ed279f] | 106 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl dprofpp"><primary sortas="b-dprofpp">dprofpp</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 107 | </listitem>
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| 108 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 109 |
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[b8a819f] | 110 | <varlistentry id="en2cxs">
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| 111 | <term><command>en2cxs</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 112 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 113 | <para>Builds a Perl extension for the Encode module from either
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| 114 | Unicode Character Mappings or Tcl Encoding Files</para>
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[3ed279f] | 115 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl en2cxs"><primary sortas="b-en2cxs">en2cxs</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 116 | </listitem>
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| 117 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 118 |
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[b8a819f] | 119 | <varlistentry id="find2perl">
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| 120 | <term><command>find2perl</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 121 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 122 | <para>Translates <command>find</command> commands to Perl</para>
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[3ed279f] | 123 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl find2perl"><primary sortas="b-find2perl">find2perl</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 124 | </listitem>
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| 125 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 126 |
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[b8a819f] | 127 | <varlistentry id="h2ph">
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| 128 | <term><command>h2ph</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 129 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 130 | <para>Converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header files to
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| 131 | <filename class="extension">.ph</filename> Perl header files</para>
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[3ed279f] | 132 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2ph"><primary sortas="b-h2ph">h2ph</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 133 | </listitem>
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| 134 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 135 |
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[b8a819f] | 136 | <varlistentry id="h2xs">
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| 137 | <term><command>h2xs</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 138 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 139 | <para>Converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header files to Perl extensions</para>
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[3ed279f] | 140 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2xs"><primary sortas="b-h2xs">h2xs</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 141 | </listitem>
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| 142 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 143 |
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[b8a819f] | 144 | <varlistentry id="libnetcfg">
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| 145 | <term><command>libnetcfg</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 146 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 147 | <para>Can be used to configure the <filename class="libraryfile">libnet</filename></para>
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[3ed279f] | 148 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl libnetcfg"><primary sortas="b-libnetcfg">libnetcfg</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 149 | </listitem>
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| 150 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 151 |
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[b8a819f] | 152 | <varlistentry id="perl">
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| 153 | <term><command>perl</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 154 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 155 | <para>Combines some of the best features of C, sed, awk and sh into a
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| 156 | single swiss-army language</para>
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[3ed279f] | 157 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl"><primary sortas="b-perl">perl</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 158 | </listitem>
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| 159 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 160 |
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[69993f4] | 161 | <varlistentry id="perl-version">
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| 162 | <term><command>perl&perl-version;</command></term>
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| 163 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 164 | <para>A hard link to <command>perl</command></para>
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[69993f4] | 165 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl-version"><primary
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| 166 | sortas="b-perl&perl-version;">perl&perl-version;</primary></indexterm>
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| 167 | </listitem>
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| 168 | </varlistentry>
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| 169 |
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| 170 |
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[b8a819f] | 171 | <varlistentry id="perlbug">
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| 172 | <term><command>perlbug</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 173 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 174 | <para>Used to generate bug reports about Perl, or the modules that come
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| 175 | with it, and mail them</para>
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[3ed279f] | 176 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlbug"><primary sortas="b-perlbug">perlbug</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 177 | </listitem>
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| 178 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 179 |
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[b8a819f] | 180 | <varlistentry id="perlcc">
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| 181 | <term><command>perlcc</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 182 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 183 | <para>Generates executables from Perl programs</para>
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[3ed279f] | 184 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlcc"><primary sortas="b-perlcc">perlcc</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 185 | </listitem>
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| 186 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 187 |
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[b8a819f] | 188 | <varlistentry id="perldoc">
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| 189 | <term><command>perldoc</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 190 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 191 | <para>Displays a piece of documentation in pod format that is embedded
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| 192 | in the Perl installation tree or in a Perl script</para>
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[3ed279f] | 193 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perldoc"><primary sortas="b-perldoc">perldoc</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 194 | </listitem>
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| 195 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 196 |
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[b8a819f] | 197 | <varlistentry id="perlivp">
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| 198 | <term><command>perlivp</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 199 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 200 | <para>The Perl Installation Verification Procedure; it can be used to
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[ef13657] | 201 | verify that Perl and its libraries have been installed
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[2256873] | 202 | correctly</para>
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[3ed279f] | 203 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlivp"><primary sortas="b-perlivp">perlivp</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 204 | </listitem>
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| 205 | </varlistentry>
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| 206 |
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[b8a819f] | 207 | <varlistentry id="piconv">
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| 208 | <term><command>piconv</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 209 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 210 | <para>A Perl version of the character encoding converter
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| 211 | <command>iconv</command></para>
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[3ed279f] | 212 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl piconv"><primary sortas="b-piconv">piconv</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 213 | </listitem>
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| 214 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 215 |
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[b8a819f] | 216 | <varlistentry id="pl2pm">
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| 217 | <term><command>pl2pm</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 218 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 219 | <para>A rough tool for converting Perl4 <filename class="extension">.pl</filename>
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| 220 | files to Perl5 <filename class="extension">.pm</filename> modules</para>
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[3ed279f] | 221 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pl2pm"><primary sortas="b-pl2pm">pl2pm</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 222 | </listitem>
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| 223 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 224 |
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[b8a819f] | 225 | <varlistentry id="pod2html">
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| 226 | <term><command>pod2html</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 227 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 228 | <para>Converts files from pod format to HTML format</para>
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[3ed279f] | 229 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2html"><primary sortas="b-pod2html">pod2html</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 230 | </listitem>
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| 231 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 232 |
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[b8a819f] | 233 | <varlistentry id="pod2latex">
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| 234 | <term><command>pod2latex</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 235 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 236 | <para>Converts files from pod format to LaTeX format</para>
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[3ed279f] | 237 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2latex"><primary sortas="b-pod2latex">pod2latex</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 238 | </listitem>
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| 239 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 240 |
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[b8a819f] | 241 | <varlistentry id="pod2man">
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| 242 | <term><command>pod2man</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 243 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 244 | <para>Converts pod data to formatted *roff input</para>
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[3ed279f] | 245 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2man"><primary sortas="b-pod2man">pod2man</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 246 | </listitem>
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| 247 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 248 |
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[b8a819f] | 249 | <varlistentry id="pod2text">
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| 250 | <term><command>pod2text</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 251 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 252 | <para>Converts pod data to formatted ASCII text</para>
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[3ed279f] | 253 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2text"><primary sortas="b-pod2text">pod2text</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 254 | </listitem>
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| 255 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 256 |
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[b8a819f] | 257 | <varlistentry id="pod2usage">
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| 258 | <term><command>pod2usage</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 259 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 260 | <para>Prints usage messages from embedded pod docs in files</para>
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[3ed279f] | 261 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2usage"><primary sortas="b-pod2usage">pod2usage</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 262 | </listitem>
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| 263 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 264 |
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[b8a819f] | 265 | <varlistentry id="podchecker">
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| 266 | <term><command>podchecker</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 267 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 268 | <para>Checks the syntax of pod format documentation files</para>
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[3ed279f] | 269 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podchecker"><primary sortas="b-podchecker">podchecker</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 270 | </listitem>
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| 271 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 272 |
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[b8a819f] | 273 | <varlistentry id="podselect">
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| 274 | <term><command>podselect</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 275 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 276 | <para>Displays selected sections of pod documentation</para>
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[3ed279f] | 277 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podselect"><primary sortas="b-podselect">podselect</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 278 | </listitem>
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| 279 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 280 |
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[b8a819f] | 281 | <varlistentry id="psed">
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| 282 | <term><command>psed</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 283 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 284 | <para>A Perl version of the stream editor <command>sed</command></para>
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[3ed279f] | 285 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl psed"><primary sortas="b-psed">psed</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 286 | </listitem>
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| 287 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 288 |
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[b8a819f] | 289 | <varlistentry id="pstruct">
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| 290 | <term><command>pstruct</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 291 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 292 | <para>Dumps C structures as generated from <command>cc -g -S</command> stabs</para>
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[3ed279f] | 293 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pstruct"><primary sortas="b-pstruct">pstruct</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 294 | </listitem>
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| 295 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 296 |
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[b8a819f] | 297 | <varlistentry id="s2p">
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| 298 | <term><command>s2p</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 299 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 300 | <para>Translates sed to Perl</para>
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[3ed279f] | 301 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl s2p"><primary sortas="b-s2p">s2p</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 302 | </listitem>
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| 303 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 304 |
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[b8a819f] | 305 | <varlistentry id="splain">
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| 306 | <term><command>splain</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 307 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 308 | <para>Is used to force verbose warning diagnostics in Perl</para>
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[3ed279f] | 309 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl splain"><primary sortas="b-splain">splain</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 310 | </listitem>
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| 311 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 312 |
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[b8a819f] | 313 | <varlistentry id="xsubpp">
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| 314 | <term><command>xsubpp</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 315 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 316 | <para>Converts Perl XS code into C code</para>
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[3ed279f] | 317 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl xsubpp"><primary sortas="b-xsubpp">xsubpp</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 318 | </listitem>
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| 319 | </varlistentry>
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| 320 | </variablelist>
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| 322 | </sect2>
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| 324 | </sect1>
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