in reply to Stymied by formatting characters

I don't see this (ActiveState Perl build 806 on XP Pro). Grasping at straws, what version of perl is this? Is it ActiveState? Does the debugger say anything about ReadLine support when it starts up? If you say perl -MCPAN -eshell, does that say anything about ReadLine support when it starts up? What does SET TERM show? How about SET PERL_RL? Does entering SET PERL_RL= o=0(thats 'equal','space','little-oh','equal','zero') at the command prompt fix it?

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Re: Re: Stymied by formatting characters
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 04, 2004 at 17:47 UTC
    Unfortunately, simply using Cygwin is not enough to avoid the problem - but I am glad to know about Cygwin. We have used MKSToolkit where I work in the past.

    In regard to the version: 

    C:\Scripts\PERL\Helpers>perl -v

This is perl, v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2001, Larry Wall

Binary based on sources for build 626
  provided by ActiveState Tool Corp. http://www.ActiveState.com
Built 23:32:43 May 10 2001

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    In answer to your question about Readline and Set Term (and this is probably the most significant thing.): 

    C:\Scripts\PERL\Helpers>perl -MCPAN -eshell

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.59_54)
ReadLine support enabled

SetConsoleMode failed, LastError=|6| at C:\PERL\SITE\LIB/Term/ReadKey.
+pm line 24
5.
cpan>

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