PerlIO-Layers Perl's filehandles are implemented as a stack of layers, with the bottom-most usually doing the actual IO and the higher ones doing buffering, encoding/decoding or transformations. PerlIO::Layers allows you to query the filehandle's properties concerning there layers. INSTALLATION To install this module, run the following commands: perl Build.PL ./Build ./Build test ./Build install SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc PerlIO::Layers You can also look for information at: RT, CPAN's request tracker http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=PerlIO-Layers AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation http://annocpan.org/dist/PerlIO-Layers CPAN Ratings http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/PerlIO-Layers Search CPAN http://search.cpan.org/dist/PerlIO-Layers/ LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2010 Leon Timmermans This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License. See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.