Hello!
I couldn’t find any similar questions on this in the forum so I’ve posted my own.
I recently installed perl 5.24 on zOS. When we use the perldoc command, for example ‘perldoc perlbot’, the command returns garbage characters along with valid text, like so:
^[1mNAME^[m
perlbot - Links to information on object-oriented programming in Perl
^[1mDESCRIPTION^[m
For information on OO programming with Perl, please see perlootut and
perlobj.
(The above documents supersede the collection of tricks that was formerly
here in perlbot.)
/tmp/D2m_sMWEA1
I found what I think are the source files for these pages in /share/man/cat1. They look OK there.
The output looks mostly ok but not perfect if I’m in the OMVS shell (called from TSO). It looks worse in putty, which is what I was using in the example above.
I’m wondering what I did wrong on the install/configuration.
I do have a file not found that didn’t pass the check after the install : /lib/perl5/5.24.0/os390/perllocal.pod . It gets a ‘fail’ when I run the script and indeed is missing. I don’t know if this is related or not to my problem.
Thanks!