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Date:	Sun, 02 May 2004 10:56:47 +0100
From:	Jason Pearce <jason DOT pearce AT ieee DOT org>
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To:	Cygwin List <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: AS Perl versus cygwin Perl

>
>
>>Hi,
>>I still use Active State Perl rather than cygwin's native Perl, the
>>reason being that I have trouble intalling Perl modules via > cpan in
>>particular the MySQL DBIs & DBD, cpan keeps finding other modules
>>which need installing before giving up. Whereas the AS PPM (Perl
>>Package Manager) works everytime.
>>
>>Is this just my experience? (I've tried disabling AS-Perl before doing
>>my installs)
>>zzapper (vim, cygwin, wiki & zsh)
>>--
>>
>>vim -c ":%s/^/WhfgTNabgureRIvzSUnpxre/|:%s/[R-T]/ /Ig|:normal ggVGg?"
>>
>>http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=305  Best of Vim Tips
>>
>  
>

I use Cygwin Perl and set $PERLIO=crlf because I have a lot of scripts 
processing IO from other windows tools.
But I have to remember to unset $PERLIO becfore using CPAN otherwise it 
fails! But after that, I have had no problems using the CPAN module.

Jason




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