=head1 DESCRIPTION
I<installhtml> converts a collection of POD pages to a corresponding
-collection of HTML pages. This is primarily used to convert the pod
-pages found in the perl distribution.
+collection of HTML pages. This is used to convert the pod pages found in the
+perl distribution. (It is not intended as a general-purpose
+converter/installer of POD pages in HTML format. See L<Pod::Html>.)
=head1 OPTIONS
=item B<--splititem> POD files to split on =item directive
-Comma-separated list of all pod files to split by the =item directive.
-The .pod suffix is optional. I<installhtml> does not do the actual
-split, rather it invokes I<splitpod> to do the dirty work. As with
---splithead, these files should have names specified relative to podroot.
+Comma-separated list of all pod files to split by the =item directive. The
+.pod suffix is optional. I<installhtml> does not do the actual split, rather
+it invokes I<splitpod>, a separate program in the Perl 5 core distribution,
+to do the dirty work. As with --splithead, these files should have names
+specified relative to podroot.
=item B<--splitpod> Directory containing the splitpod program
# See vms/descrip_mms.template -> descrip.mms for invocation.
if ( $^O eq 'VMS' ) { @ARGV = split(/\s+/,$ARGV[0]); }
-use vars qw( %Options );
+our %Options;
# parse the command-line
my $result = GetOptions( \%Options, qw(