Decided I'd like to try my hand at automating Windows stuff

There is your problem right there. Windows. Perl was originally developed for Unix-like operating systems, and to this very day, still works better on Linux. It works so well, as a matter of fact, I'm impressed.

But you, on that inferior OS Windows, complain that the normally perfectly working Perl systems, don't work right.

Switch to Linux, because Windows is your REAL problem.

Plasma shields UP!! :-)

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth.
Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh

In reply to Re: CPAN Module Installation (aka Oh, God, Here We Go Again) by zentara
in thread CPAN Module Installation (aka Oh, God, Here We Go Again) by marinersk

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