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NAME
       pptemplate - script to generate Makefile.PL and PP file
       skeleton

SYNOPSIS
               # generate Makefile.PL and mymodule.pd in CWD
               pptemplate PDL::MyModule;


DESCRIPTION
       The pptemplate script is the easiest way to start a new
       module for PDL that contains PP code (see also PDL::PP).
       The usage is simply

         pptemplate modulename;

       As a result pptemplate will generate a perl Makefile for
       the new module (Makefile.PL) that contains the minimal
       structure to generate a module from PP code and also a
       skeleton file for your new module.

       The file will be called mymod.pd if you called "pptem-
       plate" as

         pptemplate PDL::CleverAlgs::Mymod;

       I suppose you can work out the naming rule ";)". If not
       resort to experimentation or the source code.

       "pptemplate" will refuse to overwrite existing files of
       the same name to avoid accidents. Move them out of the way
       if you really want to scrap them.

       Options

       Currently there is only the "-i" option which switches
       "pptemplate" into the so called internal mode.  It should
       only be used when you are starting a new module within the
       main PDL tree that is supposed to be part of the PDL dis-
       tribution and the normal PDL build process, e.g.

          cd PDL/IO;
          mkdir Mpthree; cd Mpthree;
          pptemplate -i PDL::IO::Mpthree;


BUGS
       Maybe ";)".  Feedback and bug reports are welcome.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 2001, Christian Soeller. All Rights
       Reserved.  This module is free software. It may be used,
       redistributed and/or modified under the same terms as PDL
       itself (see http://pdl.perl.org).



perl v5.6.1                 2002-04-08              PPTEMPLATE(E)