LEGALESE ~~~~~~~~ Copyright (c) 1995 Ilya Zakharevich. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. You should have received a copy of the Perl license along with Perl; see the file README in Perl distribution. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Perl; see the file Copying. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. You should have received a copy of the Artistic License along with Perl; see the file Artistic. Author of this software makes no claim whatsoever about suitability, reliability, edability, editability or usability of this product, and should not be kept liable for any damage resulting from the use of it. If you can use it, you are in luck, if not, I should not be kept responsible. Keep a handy copy of your backup tape at hand. WHAT ~~~~ This is a quick implementation of the minimal interface to Readline libraries. The implementation is made in Perl (mostly) by Jeffrey Friedl. The only thing this library does is to make it conformant (and add some minimal changes, like using Term::ReadKey if present, and correct work under xterm). (In fact this is an understatement now, a lot of additions are made, see CHANGES...) INSTALL ~~~~~~~ To install this module type perl Makefile.PL make make test or (with newer makemaker) make test_dynamic (Check whether you are satisfied with the results. Try to redirect stdin and/or stdout.) make install You may need to install Term::ReadKey first if your system is new (Solaris is ;-(). (Available in standard places, checked with 1.98.) If you see something like Can't ioctl TIOCGETP: Invalid argument at ... this means you need ReadKey. Note that as of 0.95 Term/ReadLine.pm is unbundled to make CPAN.pm happier. On the other hand, if you get newer Term/ReadLine.pm (say, by installing newer Perl) you may get more features enabled. For most features of T::R::P one needs to look in the CHANGES file. AUTHOR BUGS ~~~~~~~~~~~ Ilya Zakharevich ilya@math.ohio-state.edu Std dstribution site: ftp://ftp.math.ohio-state.edu/pub/users/ilya/perl