This is an alpha release. The interface presented here is still subject to change. =head1 What it does It's a shell for downloading and installing modules from CPAN. The prompt is 'cpan> ' in the examples below. cpan> h command arguments description a authors b string bundles d or display distributions m regex info modules i or about anything of above r none reinstall recommendations u uninstalled modules make module, make test dist or make test (implies make) install bundle make install (implies test) h display this menu ! perl-code eval a perl command q quit the shell subroutine cpan> a LWALL Author id = LWALL EMAIL larry@wall.org FULLNAME Larry Wall. Author of Perl. Busy man. cpan> m /news/ Module News::NNTPClient (RVA/NNTPClient-0.26.tar.gz) Module News::NNTPFetchProgress (RVA/NNTPClient-0.26.tar.gz) Module News::Newsrc (SWMCD/News-Newsrc-1.02.tar.gz) Module URI::URL::news (GAAS/libwww-perl-5.01.tar.gz) cpan> m News::Ne cpan> m News::Newsrc _< cursor here cpan> m News::Newsrc Module id = News::Newsrc DESCRIPTION Manage .newsrc files CPAN_USERID SWMCD (Steven McDougall) CPAN_VERSION 1.02 CPAN_FILE SWMCD/News-Newsrc-1.02.tar.gz DSLI_STATUS adpO (alpha,developer,perl,object-oriented) MANPAGE News::Newsrc - manage newsrc files INST_FILE /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/News/Newsrc.pm INST_VERSION 1.02 cpan> r Package namespace installed latest in CPAN file Date::GetDate 1.01 2.00 TOMC/modules/Date-GetDate-2.00.tar.gz Devel::DProf 19960302 19960626 DMR/DProf-19960626.tar.gz File::Copy 1.5 2.0 ASHER/File-Tools-2.0.tar.gz Filter::decrypt 1.02 1.03 PMQS/Filter-1.10.tar.gz Ioctl 0 0.7 KJALB/Ioctl-0_7.tar.gz MIME::Decoder 0 1.9 ERYQ/MIME-parser-1.13.tar.gz Mail::Folder 0.02 0.03 KJOHNSON/MailFolder-0.03.tar.gz Pod::Text 0 2 BRADAPP/PodParser-1.00.tar.gz Tk::FileDialog 0 1.3 BPOWERS/Tk-FileDialog-1.3.tar.gz Tk::WaitBox 0 1.2 BPOWERS/Tk-WaitBox-1.2.tar.gz cpan> in cpan> install _ install Po cpan> install Pod::_ install Pod::Text Running make PodParser-0.01/ PodParser-0.01/Text.pm PodParser-0.01/Makefile.PL [...] /usr/local/bin/make -- OK Running make test [...] /usr/local/bin/make test -- OK Running make install [...] /usr/local/bin/make install UNINST=1 -- OK cpan> a /rand/ Author JOEHIL (Joe Hildebrand) Author MERLYN (Randal L. Schwartz) Author RJRAY (Randy J Ray) And so forth. =head1 Prerequisites perl5.003 Net::FTP =head1 Recommended ExtUtils::MakeMaker v5.38 Term::ReadKey Term::ReadLine::Perl MD5 LWP andreas