The Linux Manuals (man pages) document is an important part of Linux documents. Linux Manuals are organized as several sections. Each section has a group of commands for a specific area in Linux usage, administration or development.
pf2afm – Make an AFM file from Postscript (PFB/PFA/PFM) font files using ghostscript Synopsispf2afm fontfilename DescriptionThis script invokes gs(1) to make an AFM file from PFB / PFA and (optionally) PFM files. Output goes to fontfilename.afm, which must not already exist. See Alsogs(1) pf2afm.ps in the Ghostscript lib directory. VersionThis document was last revised for…
pf-localization – MonteCarlo mobile robot localization Synopsispf-localization config_file.ini Descriptionpf-localization is a command-line application which processes a rawlog and tracks a mobile robot pose from the sequence of odometry and observations. It can also perform global localization. BugsPlease report bugs at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=205280&atid=993006 See AlsoThe application wiki page at http://babel.isa.uma.es/mrpt/index.php/Applications Authorspf-localization is part of the Mobile Robot…
perror – display MySQL error message information Synopsis perror [options] errorcode …Descriptionperror displays the error message for MySQL or operating system error codes. Invoke perror like this: shell> perror [options] errorcode … perror attempts to be flexible in understanding its arguments. For example, for the ER_WRONG_VALUE_FOR_VAR error, perror understands any of these arguments: 1231, 001231,…
permview – Viewer for declarative security permission sets inside assemblies. Synopsispermview [options] assembly DescriptionThis tools allow to list the declarative security attributes present in an assembly. The security attributes are either found on the assembly level, on the classes and the methods. This tool is useful to diagnose why an assembly won’t load or why…
perlxstypemap – Perl XS C/Perl type mapping DescriptionThe more you think about interfacing between two languages, the more you’ll realize that the majority of programmer effort has to go into converting between the data structures that are native to either of the languages involved. This trumps other matter such as differing calling conventions because the…
perlxstut – Tutorial for writing XSUBs DescriptionThis tutorial will educate the reader on the steps involved in creating a Perl extension. The reader is assumed to have access to perlguts, perlapi and perlxs. This tutorial starts with very simple examples and becomes more complex, with each new example adding new features. Certain concepts may not…
perlxs – XS language reference manual DescriptionIntroductionXS is an interface description file format used to create an extension interface between Perl and C code (or a C library) which one wishes to use with Perl. The XS interface is combined with the library to create a new library which can then be either dynamically loaded…
perlwin32 – Perl under Windows SynopsisThese are instructions for building Perl under Windows 2000 and later. DescriptionBefore you start, you should glance through the README file found in the top-level directory to which the Perl distribution was extracted. Make sure you read and understand the terms under which this software is being distributed. Also make…
perlvos – Perl for Stratus OpenVOS SynopsisThis file contains notes for building perl on the Stratus OpenVOS operating system. Perl is a scripting or macro language that is popular on many systems. See perlbook for a number of good books on Perl. These are instructions for building Perl from source. This version of Perl requires…
perlvms – VMS-specific documentation for Perl DescriptionGathered below are notes describing details of Perl 5’s behavior on VMS. They are a supplement to the regular Perl 5 documentation, so we have focussed on the ways in which Perl 5 functions differently under VMS than it does under Unix, and on the interactions between Perl and…
perlvmesa – building and installing Perl for VM/ESA. SynopsisThis document will help you Configure, build, test and install Perl on VM/ESA. DescriptionThis is a fully ported perl for VM/ESA 2.3.0. It may work on other versions, but that’s the one we’ve tested it on. If you’ve downloaded the binary distribution, it needs to be installed…
perlver – The Perl Minimum Version Analyzer Synopsis adam@red:~$ perlver Perl-MinimumVersion Found directory ‘.’ Searching for Perl files… found 3 file(s) Scanning lib/Perl/MinimumVersion.pm… done Scanning t/01_compile.t… done Scanning t/02_main.t… done ——————————————————— | file | explicit | syntax | external | | ——————————————————— | | lib/Perl/MinimumVersion.pm | 5.005 | ~ | n/a | | t/01_compile.t |…
perlvar – Perl predefined variables DescriptionThe Syntax of Variable NamesVariable names in Perl can have several formats. Usually, they must begin with a letter or underscore, in which case they can be arbitrarily long (up to an internal limit of 251 characters) and may contain letters, digits, underscores, or the special sequence "::" or "’"….
perluts – Perl under UTS SynopsisThis document can be read as is: as README.uts, or you can read it after you build your package using “man perluts”. The purpose is to help you build Perl for UTS, which, if you follow these instructions, should be easy, and result in a solidly working installation. DescriptionPerl 5.7.2…
perlutil – utilities packaged with the Perl distribution DescriptionAlong with the Perl interpreter itself, the Perl distribution installs a range of utilities on your system. There are also several utilities which are used by the Perl distribution itself as part of the install process. This document exists to list all of these utilities, explain what…
perlunitut – Perl Unicode Tutorial DescriptionThe days of just flinging strings around are over. It’s well established that modern programs need to be capable of communicating funny accented letters, and things like euro symbols. This means that programmers need new habits. It’s easy to program Unicode capable software, but it does require discipline to do…
perluniprops – Index of Unicode Version 12.1.0 character properties in Perl DescriptionThis document provides information about the portion of the Unicode database that deals with character properties, that is the portion that is defined on single code points. (“Other information in the Unicode data base” below briefly mentions other data that Unicode provides.) Perl can…
perluniintro – Perl Unicode introduction DescriptionThis document gives a general idea of Unicode and how to use Unicode in Perl. See “Further Resources” for references to more in-depth treatments of Unicode. UnicodeUnicode is a character set standard which plans to codify all of the writing systems of the world, plus many other symbols. Unicode and…
perlunifaq – Perl Unicode FAQ Q and AThis is a list of questions and answers about Unicode in Perl, intended to be read after perlunitut. perlunitut isn’t really a Unicode tutorial, is it?No, and this isn’t really a Unicode FAQ. Perl has an abstracted interface for all supported character encodings, so this is actually a…
perlunicode – Unicode support in Perl DescriptionIf you haven’t already, before reading this document, you should become familiar with both perlunitut and perluniintro. Unicode aims to UNI-fy the en-CODE-ings of all the world’s character sets into a single Standard. For quite a few of the various coding standards that existed when Unicode was first created,…