in reply to CPAN Config question on Win2000

Try perl -MWin32 -e"die Win32::GetShortPathName(shift)" "path goes here"

Also, don't use CPAN, CPANPLUS is better.

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I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
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