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in thread Unable to debug due to terminal problem

I always knew tye was more brilliant than me, but this one really makes me feel stupid.

Where in his quoted error message do you see that solution made evident? I must be completely blind.

As always, the question is most sincere. I really don t see how you came to that conclusion.

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Re^3: Unable to debug due to terminal problem (jump)
by tye (Sage) on Oct 24, 2013 at 18:26 UTC

    "Unable to get Terminal Size" then "The COLUMNS and LINES environmen­t variables didn't work".

    The "set" lines I showed are how you set environment variables in Windows.

    Is there any other steps from the messages to the solution that still aren't clear to you?

    - tye        

      I am going to presume this is due to my lack of familiarity with the module itself. "The environment variable didn't work" would never have translated to "set an environment variable" for me, absent some other reason to draw that line.

      Thanks for the note.

        "The environment variable didn't work" would never have translated to "set an environment variable" for me

        What other "work" can an environment variable do?

        When you try to use an environment variable, there are really only two ways that the variable itself can fail. Either you couldn't fetch the value, which I've never seen be caused by anything other than it just not being set (in the particular process). Or, you fetch the value and it isn't an appropriate value.

        So setting the environment variable to an appropriate value does seem an obvious resolution to such a reported failure, IMHO. :) Especially after you look at what value is currently set for it, if any. And I think the names of the variables make what values are appropriate pretty obvious as well, in this context.

        - tye