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<sect3><title>Program file descriptions</title>
-<sect4><title>a2p</title>
-<para>a2p is an awk to perl translator.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>a2p</command> translates awk to perl.</para>
-<sect4><title>c2ph</title>
-<para>c2ph dumps C structures as generated from "cc -g -S" stabs.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>c2ph</command> dumps C structures as generated from
+"cc -g -S" stabs.</para>
-<sect4><title>dprofpp</title>
-<para>dprofpp displays perl profile data.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>dprofpp</command> displays perl profile data.</para>
-<sect4><title>find2perl</title>
-<para>find2perl translates find command lines to Perl code.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>find2perl</command> translates find commands to perl.</para>
-<sect4><title>h2ph</title>
-<para>h2ph converts .h C header files to .ph Perl header files.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>h2ph</command> converts .h C header files to .ph Perl header files.</para>
-<sect4><title>h2xs</title>
-<para>h2xs converts .h C header files to Perl extensions.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>h2xs</command> converts .h C header files to Perl extensions.</para>
-<sect4><title>perl, perl5.6.1</title>
-<para>perl is the Practical Extraction and Report Language. It combines
-some of the best features of C, sed, awk and sh into one powerful
-language.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>perl</command> combines some of the best features of C, sed,
+awk and sh into a single swiss-army language.</para>
-<sect4><title>perlbug</title>
-<para>perlbug helps to generate bug reports about perl or the
-modules that come with it, and mail them.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>perlbug</command> is used to generate bug reports about
+Perl or the modules that come with it, and mail them.</para>
-<sect4><title>perlcc</title>
-<para>perlcc generates executables from Perl programs.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>perlcc</command> generates executables from Perl programs.</para>
-<sect4><title>perldoc</title>
-<para>perldoc looks up a piece of documentation in .pod format that is
-embedded in the perl installation tree or in a perl script and displays it
-via "pod2man | nroff -man | $PAGER".</para></sect4>
+<para><command>perldoc</command> displays a piece of documentation in pod
+format that is embedded in the perl installation tree or in a perl script.</para>
-<sect4><title>pl2pm</title>
-<para>pl2pm is a tool to aid in the conversion of Perl4-style .pl library
-files to Perl5-style library modules.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>pl2pm</command> is a rough tool for converting Perl4 .pl
+files to Perl5 .pm modules.</para>
-<sect4><title>pod2html</title>
-<para>pod2html converts files from pod format to HTML format.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>pod2html</command> converts files from pod format to HTML
+format.</para>
-<sect4><title>pod2latex</title>
-<para>pod2latex converts files from pod format to LaTeX format.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>pod2latex</command> converts files from pod format to LaTeX
+format.</para>
-<sect4><title>pod2man</title>
-<para>pod2man converts pod data to formatted *roff input.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>pod2man</command> converts pod data to formatted *roff
+input.</para>
-<sect4><title>pod2text</title>
-<para>pod2text converts pod data to formatted ASCII text.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>pod2text</command> converts pod data to formatted ASCII
+text.</para>
-<sect4><title>pod2usage</title>
-<para>pod2usage prints usage messages from embedded pod docs in
-files.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>pod2usage</command> prints usage messages from embedded
+pod docs in files.</para>
-<sect4><title>podchecker</title>
-<para>podchecker checks the syntax of pod format documentation
-files.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>podchecker</command> checks the syntax of pod format
+documentation files.</para>
-<sect4><title>podselect</title>
-<para>podselect prints selected sections of pod documentation on
-standard output.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>podselect</command> displays selected sections of pod
+documentation.</para>
-<sect4><title>pstruct</title>
-<para>pstruct dumps C structures as generated from "cc -g -S"
-stabs.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>pstruct</command> dumps C structures as generated from
+"cc -g -S" stabs.</para>
-<sect4><title>s2p</title>
-<para>s2p is a sed to perl translator.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>s2p</command> translates sed to perl.</para>
-<sect4><title>splain</title>
-<para>splain is a program to force verbose warning diagnostics
-in perl.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>splain</command> is used to force verbose warning
+diagnostics in perl.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3><title>Library file descriptions</title>
-<sect4><title>attrs</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>attrs</command>...</para>
-<sect4><title>B</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>B</command>...</para>
-<sect4><title>ByteLoader</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>ByteLoader</command>...</para>
-<sect4><title>DProf</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>DProf</command>...</para>
-<sect4><title>Dumper</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>Dumper</command>...</para>
-<sect4><title>DynaLoader</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>DynaLoader</command>...</para>
-<sect4><title>Fcntl</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>Fcntl</command>...</para>
-<sect4><title>Glob</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>Glob</command>...</para>
-<sect4><title>Hostname</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>Hostname</command>...</para>
-<sect4><title>IO</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>IO</command>...</para>
-<sect4><title>libperl</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>libperl</command>...</para>
-<sect4><title>Opcode</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>Opcode</command>...</para>
-<sect4><title>Peek</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>Peek</command>...</para>
-<sect4><title>POSIX</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>POSIX</command>...</para>
-<sect4><title>re</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>re</command>...</para>
-<sect4><title>SDBM_File</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>SDBM_File</command>...</para>
-<sect4><title>Socket</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>Socket</command>...</para>
-<sect4><title>Syslog</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>Syslog</command>...</para>
-<sect4><title>SysV</title>
-<para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>SysV</command>...</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
+