NAME Pod::Minicpandoc - perldoc that works for modules you don't have installed SYNOPSIS mcpandoc File::Find -- shows the documentation of your installed File::Find mcpandoc Acme::BadExample -- works even if you don't have Acme::BadExample installed! mcpandoc -v '$?' -- passes everything through to regular perldoc mcpandoc -m Acme::BadExample | grep system -- options are respected even if the module was scraped vim `mcpandoc -l Web::Scraper` -- getting the idea yet? mcpandoc http://darkpan.org/Eval::WithLexicals::AndGlobals -- URLs work too! DESCRIPTION "mcpandoc" is a perl script that acts like "perldoc" except that if it would have bailed out with "No documentation found for "Uninstalled::Module"", it will instead consult your minicpan, or scrape a CPAN index for the module's documentation if that doesn't work. It is a fork of cpandoc, with added support for consulting a minicpan. One important feature of "mcpandoc" is that it *only* scrapes the live index if you do not have the module installed and if it cannot grab it from your minicpan. So if you use "mcpandoc" on a module you already have installed, then it will just read the already-installed documentation. This means that the version of the documentation matches up with the version of the code you have. As a fringe benefit, "mcpandoc" will be fast for modules you've installed. :) All this means that you should be able to drop in "mcpandoc" in place of "perldoc" and have everything keep working. If you set the environment variable "MCPANDOC_FETCH" to a true value, then we will print a message to STDERR telling you that "mcpandoc" is going to make a request against the live CPAN index. SEE ALSO Pod::Cpandoc, CPAN::Mini AUTHOR Shawn M Moore "sartak@gmail.com" (original implementation) Rob Hoelz "rob@hoelz.ro" (minicpan support) THANKS Many thanks to Shawn M Moore, for writing Pod::Cpandoc and giving me something base this on! COPYRIGHT Copyright 2011 Robert Hoelz. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.