Thank you kindly for the suggestion, but that doesn't seem to work either. After setting the proxy (copy & paste of your instruction) then a search, the response is,

Searching in Active Repositories
Error: No valid repositories:
Error: 500 Can't connect to proxy.innotech.com:8080 <Bad hostname 'proxy.innotech.com:8080)
Error: 500 Can't connect to proxy.innotech.com:8080 <Bad hostname 'proxy.innotech.com:8080)

For reference, I am behind a wireless router, if that makes any difference?

But the problem doesn't seem to be an access issue. I just tried defining a local repository, then disabled the remote respositories. Then I downloaded the DBI file and put it in the local repository. Now when I do a search ppm lists the DBI.ppd file that it found in the local repository. Yet still, when I do "install DBI" or even "install 1" (refering to the module it just found and listed as #1), I get the same hang, no response.

Any other thoughts? Thanks again! jdk

In reply to Re: Re: Can't install DBI in Windows XP? by jdk
in thread Can't install DBI in Windows XP? by jdk

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