[tpm] Implementing a 'less' like pager in perl

[Digimer]

Hi all,

   I like to have built-in '--help' messages in some of my programs, but 
am always at a loss for how to allow the user to page through it. 
Usually I have a message at the bottom akin to; "Please call './foo 
--help |less' to make reading this help message easier". That screams of 
"cop-out" though.

   I know I could use perldoc, but I don't like assuming that my user 
knows anything about perl.

   I've already got code to handle line wrapping and indenting lines. I 
just need some way to stop my output after X number of lines, where X is 
the terminal's number of rows, and then take the up and down arrows to 
scoll up and down through the message, with ESC or Q exiting.

   Any tips/pointers?

Thanks!