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<sect2><title>Contents of Perl</title>

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<para>The Perl package contains perl, the Practical Extraction
and Report Language. Perl combines some of the best features of C,
sed, awk and sh into one powerful language.</para>

<para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: a2p, c2ph, dprofpp, enc2xs,
find2perl, h2ph, h2xs, libnetcfg, perl, perl&perl-version; (link to perl),
perlbug, perlcc, perldoc, perlivp, piconv, pl2pm, pod2html, pod2latex, pod2man,
pod2text, pod2usage, podchecker, podselect, psed (link to s2p), pstruct (link
to c2ph), s2p, splain and xsubpp</para> 

<para><emphasis>Installed libraries</emphasis>: (too many to name)</para>

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