Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] pod2html vs man2html

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From: aferen@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Andrew C. Feren)
Date: 20 Mar 2002 14:35:18 -0500
About a month or so ago doc/Makefile.nmake was modified to call
pod2html instead of man2html.  This seems reasonable except for the
fact that man2html works and (at least for the latest Cygwin
distribution) pod2html does not.

I grabbed ActiveState perl and that worked.

My question is it desirable to require a perl version with a working
pod2html?  Or is it better to go back to man2html?

Actually looking a little closer at the output I may have to vote for
pod2html.  man2html seems to have some odd formatting side effects.
(Among other things links get created for items that shouldn't have
them.)

I think I have just convinced myself put ActiveState perl on my
system, but I'll throw the question out and see if anyone has other
ideas or suggestions.


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-Andrew Feren
 Cetacean Networks, Inc.
 Portsmouth, NH