========================================= Package "Config::Manager" Version 1.7 ========================================= Copyright (c) 2003 by Steffen Beyer & Gerhard Albers. All rights reserved. This package is available for download either from the web site at http://www.engelschall.com/u/sb/download/ or from any CPAN (= "Comprehensive Perl Archive Network") mirror server: http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/S/ST/STBEY/ What's new in version 1.7: -------------------------- + Added SPECIAL configuration constants HOUR, MIN, SEC and WDAY + Added mention of showchain.pl to the Config::Manager manpage + Corrected the description of "MakeDir()" in File.pm + Script showchain.pl doesn't pipe output via "more" anymore + Removed excessive indentation from the output of showconf.pl + Now 'source' and 'line' attributes for $[SPECIAL]{HOME} and $[SPECIAL]{WHOAMI} are properly set Legal issues: ------------- This package with all its parts is Copyright (c) 2003 by Steffen Beyer & Gerhard Albers. All rights reserved. This package is free software; you can use, modify and redistribute it under the same terms as Perl itself, i.e., under the terms of the "Artistic License" or the "GNU General Public License". Please refer to the files "Artistic.txt" and "GNU_GPL.txt" in this distribution, respectively, for more details! Prerequisites: -------------- Perl version 5.000 or higher, modules IO::File, File::Compare, File::Copy, Net::SMTP and MD5. Installation: ------------- Please see the file "INSTALL.txt" in this distribution for instructions on how to install this package. Changes over previous versions: ------------------------------- Please refer to the file "CHANGES.txt" in this distribution for a detailed version history. Documentation: -------------- The documentation of this package is included in POD format (= "Plain Old Documentation") in the various "*.pm" files in this distribution, the human- readable markup-language standard for Perl documentation. By building this package, this documentation will automatically be converted into a man page, which will automatically be installed in your Perl tree for further reference in this process, where it can be accessed via the command (e.g.) "man Config::Manager" (UNIX) or "perldoc Config::Manager" (UNIX and Win32). If Perl is not currently available on your system, you can also read this documentation directly. Moreover, there is a short introduction given in file "Intro.txt", to which belong the two pictures "Bild1.jpg" and "Bild2.jpg". What does it do: ---------------- The objective of this module suite is to support configuration management. Please see the documentation (which is in German only, unfortunately) for more details (in particular file "Intro.txt"). Author's note: -------------- If you have any questions, suggestions or need any assistance, please let me know! Please do send feedback, this is essential for improving this module according to your needs! I hope you will find this module useful. Enjoy! Yours, -- Steffen Beyer http://www.engelschall.com/u/sb/ "There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone." - Mohandas Karamchand "Mahatma" Gandhi