This is the perlindex distribution Perlindex is a program to index and search the perl documentation. The newest version is always available from CPAN/authors/id/ULPFR. Perlindex should work with any Perl >= 5.002 at least. With Perl >= 5.003_07 it will use compress integers which results in smaller indices. To install do: perl Makefile.PL make install perlindex -index You may give additional files to index on the command line. I'd recommend to specify the perl utils (perldoc, h2xs, ...): perlindex -index /usr/local/ls6/perl-5.002/bin/* Ulrich Pfeifer