On an XP laptop, using ActiveState, I was "cleaning up" and when I finished, my perl will not run in -d mode. I suspect I've deleted something I didn't realize I needed.
I downloaded the build again from AS & reinstalled it into a diff dir (AS_Perl588), but it was no help.
perl FileScan.pl works fine,
but when I try the -d arg,
I get the following set of messages.

C:\Dev\Perl_Dev>perl -d FileScan.pl<br> 
Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.3<br>
Editor support available.<br>

Enter h or `h h' for help, or `perldoc perldebug' for more help.<br>

main::(FileScan.pl:15): $Mode = "";       # Mode = "" Off, "U" Unatten
+ded, "D" Debug<br>
Unable to get Terminal Size. The Win32 GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo call
+ didn't work. <br>The COLUMNS and LINES environment variabl
es didn't work. <br>The resize program didn't work. at C:/AS_Perl588/l
+ib/Term/ReadKey.pm line 362.<br>
Compilation failed in require at C:/AS_Perl588/lib/Term/ReadLine/Perl.
+pm line 64.<br>
 at C:/AS_Perl588/lib/Term/ReadLine/Perl.pm line 64
        Term::ReadLine::Perl::new<br>('Term::ReadLine', 'perldb', 'GLO
+B(0x19223e4)', 'GLOB(0x18beb18)') called at C:/AS_Perl588/l
ib/perl5db.pl line 6066<br>
        DB::setterm called at C:/AS_Perl588/lib/perl5db.pl line 2238<b
+r>
        DB::DB called at FileScan.pl line 15<br>
Debugged program terminated.  Use q to quit or R to restart,<br>
  use o inhibit_exit to avoid stopping after program termination,<br>
  h q, h R or h o to get additional info.<br>
  DB<1> q<br>

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1-Can someone see where I went wrong & bail me out.
2-Should messages like this be in <some type of> tags?
Thanks. UPDATE: Included Code tags.

In reply to I think I may have hosed a piece of perl, specifically the debugger. by Aim9b

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