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Re: I'm having Trouble with 'readme' on CPAN
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>
- To: "Muhammad Isa" <isafamily at yahoo dot co dot uk>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 08:17:15 +0200
- Subject: Re: I'm having Trouble with 'readme' on CPAN
- Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
- References: <a81mkb$6ll$1@main.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: "Gerrit P. Haase @ cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Hallo Muhammad,
Am 2002-03-29 um 14:26 schriebst du:
> Hi, A PERL QUESTION ???
> ---------------------
> I was wondering if anybody has noticed a problem with the CPAN 'shell'.
> With all other 'Net' applications shut down, it seems to behave quite well,
> except when running the 'readme' routine.
Hmmm, never used it...
> It first says it's running the 'readme' routine, then goes quiet for a
> few minutes, then the hard drive sounds like it's having a war with
> something for 30 seconds, then finally displays a 1Kb readme in the 'less'
> pager. On quitting the pager, it again makes a heck of a din for a while,
> disconnecting from the net in the process, and maybe losing keyboard
> functionality altogether.
> I presume this is a 'Cygwin' related problem? (or perhaps set-up?). My
> system info is as follows:-
I have no problems here (this is perl-5.7.3, the upcoming perl-5.8),
at least then it will work ok.
> Overall, I am very pleased with 'Cygwin' and can see how much work is
> going in to this project. I congratulate all those concerned.
;)
Gerrit
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