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From: jerbil@ultra.com (Joseph Beckenbach {Adapter Software Release Engr})
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Additional whistle for perl script+manpage
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.233837.19914@ultra.com>
Date: 6 Jun 91 23:38:37 GMT
Organization: Ultra Network Technologies
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	Somewhen on this newsgroup I got a hold of some perl scripts
with embedded manual pages.  In partial thanks for this, I'd like to
remind people that you can append the line
---
.ex
---
to force nroff(1) to exit.  It then can be followed with raw text, such as
design notes, to accompany the script.  Dedicated to all who hate large
blocks of comments sprinkled throughout an otherwise pristine script. :-)

		Joseph Beckenbach

PS I don't know how this would interact with emacs perl-mode.  Probably
	not too pretty a sight.
-- 
Joseph Beckenbach	jerbil@ultra.com		VEGGIES FOREVER!
"If you understand something the first time you see it, you probably knew it
 already.  The more bewildered you are, the more successful the mission was."
	Ed Stone (JPL), Chief Mission Scientist (?) for Voyager