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From: David Christensen <dpchrist AT holgerdanske DOT com>
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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 18:36:21 -0800
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On 11/17/2016 11:53 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> David Christensen writes:
>> Today, I did a fresh install of Cygwin 64-bit on a recently built (and
>> fully updated) Windows 7 Professional 64-bit computer.
...
>> When I run the command:
>>
>>     cpan local::lib
>>
>> One core goes to 100% and the program hangs indefinitely.
>>
>>
>> When I run the command:
>>
>>     cpan
>>
>> I see an endless stream of:
>>
>>     Press SPACE and ENTER to disable ftp
>>     Press SPACE and ENTER to disable ftp
>>     Press SPACE and ENTER to disable ftp
>>     ...
> It looks like you're picking up an FTP program from Windows.  You should
> configure cpan to use something else instead (you may have to install
> some other Cygwin packages, like wget or lftp in order to do so).

Thanks for the reply.


The machine is at another site; I'll try that the next time I work on it.


David



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