Re: Perl under cygwin in CPAN problem

2006-01-31 Thread Linda Walsh
Hi Gerrit, Yeah, for most purposes hitting Enter gives you what you need, but something was weird was going on. The problem went away after I - (ug) rebooted. Have no idea how it happened -- had closed out the CMD-window and started with fresh windows, exiting all cygwin programs, but that d

Re: Perl under cygwin in CPAN problem

2006-01-31 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hello, sorry, my mailer is stupid and doesn't know how to create linefeed in UTF-8, however it sends mail in UTF-8 quite happily ;) reformatted: Linda wrote: > Was trying to load some new packages in CPAN under perl > in cygwin. I noticed a problem when it asked for prereqs: > It wouldn't acc

Re: Perl under cygwin in CPAN problem

2006-01-31 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Linda wrote:> Was trying to load some new packages in CPAN under perl > in cygwin. I noticed a problem when it asked for prereqs:> It wouldn't accept "CR" to terminate the input -- only "LF".I don't think I get this right. How do I distinguish between LF and CR? Just hitting at

Perl under cygwin in CPAN problem

2006-01-22 Thread Linda Walsh
Was trying to load some new packages in CPAN under perl in cygwin. I noticed a problem when it asked for prereqs: It wouldn't accept "CR" to terminate the input -- only "LF". I tried reloading CPAN -- that pulled up the reconfigure dialog for some new parameters -- then I find the same problem