This is the Perl distribution PerlIO-via-Pipe. INSTALLATION PerlIO-via-Pipe installation is straightforward. If your CPAN shell is set up, you should just be able to do % cpan PerlIO::via::Pipe Download it, unpack it, then build it as per the usual: % perl Makefile.PL % make && make test Then install it: % make install DOCUMENTATION PerlIO-via-Pipe documentation is available as in POD. So you can do: % perldoc PerlIO::via::Pipe to read the documentation online with your favorite pager. Marcel Gruenauer