IO

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NAME
       IO - load various IO modules

SYNOPSIS
	   use IO qw(Handle File);  # loads IO modules, here IO::Handle, IO::File
	   use IO;		    # DEPRECATED

DESCRIPTION
       "IO" provides a simple mechanism to load several of the IO modules in
       one go.	The IO modules belonging to the core are:

	     IO::Handle
	     IO::Seekable
	     IO::File
	     IO::Pipe
	     IO::Socket
	     IO::Dir
	     IO::Select
	     IO::Poll

       Some other IO modules don’t belong to the perl core but can be loaded
       as well if they have been installed from CPAN.  You can discover which
       ones exist by searching for "^IO::" on http://search.cpan.org.

       For more information on any of these modules, please see its respec-
       tive documentation.

DEPRECATED
	   use IO;		  # loads all the modules listed below

       The loaded modules are IO::Handle, IO::Seekable, IO::File, IO::Pipe,
       IO::Socket, IO::Dir.  You should instead explicitly import the IO mod-
       ules you want.



perl v5.8.8			  2001-09-21				IO(3)