Hello shivangi,

Even if the same version of the Term::ReadLine module is installed under each OS, its behaviour still depends on its local environment. So:

• Check that the environment variable PERL_RL has the same value (if any) on both platforms.

• Run perl -MTerm::ReadLine -we 'print Term::ReadLine->new()->ReadLine();' on both platforms and verify that the same ReadLine clone is loaded in each.

• If it is (e.g. the output of the above command gives Term::ReadLine::Perl in both cases), check that the same version of this ReadLine clone is installed on each platform.

Hope that helps,

Did you, by chance compare versions, and their corresponding man pages, pod's for any differences between the two?

--Chris

#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use Perl::Always or die;
my $perl_version = (5.12.5);
print $perl_version;

If you can't get Term::ReadLine::Gnu installed (perhaps you don't have the underlying GNU Readline installed or perhaps you don't have XS support), Term::Readline::Perl5 has the same history mechanism as Term::ReadLine::Gnu and it is pure Perl although it requires Term::ReadKey.

Neither Term::ReadLine by itself nor Term::ReadLine::Perl have history. But again as the others in this thread have indicated, the setting of environment variable PERL_RL and what Perl modules you have installed in addition to Term::ReadLine e.g. Term::ReadLine::Gnu or Term::ReadLine::Perl5 matters here.