After I read your post, I started downloading the last Perl 5.6.1 issued by ActiveState. It was taking its sweet time...

Looks like the file date of the new one is September 2001, $VERSION = "1.1604";. It has the same use of the variables posted earlier.

Well, to get 2.26... Hmm,

"None of the range-specifier values in the Range request-header field overlap the current extent of the selected resource. > Apache/2.0.43 Server at search.cpan.org Port 80

Download from CPAN.org instead,

Well, it's own "nmake test" for Test::Harness gives me a whole bunch of t\callback.........'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,, which sure looks like the same issue.

Back to my directory, same problem: it cuts off the Perl interpreter name at the first space.

—John