Dear Brothers and Sisters in Perl!

I have installed a local Mini::CPAN so I am never without this treasure trove of modules, even when I cannot make contact with the repositories on the Web.

Most of the time, installs through cpan from this local repository work well. I just installed the latest version of Text::CSV without a problem. Then I wanted to install its companion module Text::CSV_XS and got the following errors:

Running install for module 'Text::CSV_XS'
Running make for H/HM/HMBRAND/Text-CSV_XS-0.70.tgz
Could not find '/data/perl/cpan/mirror/authors/id/H/HM/HMBRAND/Text-CS
+V_XS-0.70.tgz'
Fetching with LWP:
  file://c:/data/perl/cpan/mirror/authors/id/H/HM/HMBRAND/Text-CSV_XS-
+0.70.tgz
Use of uninitialized value $file_length in numeric lt (<) at C:\Data\P
+erl\lib/LWP/UserAgent.pm line 845.
Use of uninitialized value $file_length in concatenation (.) or string
+ at C:\Data\Perl\lib/LWP/UserAgent.pm line 847.
Catching error: "Transfer truncated: only  out of 105750 bytes receive
+d" at c:/Data/Perl/lib/CPAN.pm line 391
CPAN::shell() called at c:/data/perl/bin/cpan.bat line 211

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Very strange.

I checked the .gz file on the hard disk: it exists, is not broken and is of the required length.

My cpan configuration has the following line for the repositories: 

'urllist' => ['file://c:/data/perl/cpan/mirror', 'http://cpan.perl.org
+', 'http://ppm.activestate.com/CPAN'],

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I am really stumped: how is it possible that it works sometimes and sometimes it seems broken? Anyone an idea how to mend it?

I am on Windows XP Professional and running ActiveState Perl 5.10.1, cpan 1.9402 and CPAN::Mini 0.576.

CountZero

A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

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