I'll be damned! Not only did you nail it again, but I was so blinded by context the first time I checked this that I didn't see the obvious problem until now.

> set | find "ake"
Make=LENOVO

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A bug that only exists on ThinkPads! No wonder I was going nuts (relatively) alone.

When my mind was scanning env vars before, I totally missed this because the context of the other env vars surrounding it!

MAC=00FF6816060A
Make=LENOVO
Model=64758S4
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=2
OS=Windows_NT

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Well, let my thoroughness failure be a warning to all ThinkPad users working with Strawberry Perl.

In reply to Re^9: Strawberry Perl 5.12.3, CPAN, make file problems (dmake.exe), DFSEP and backslash "\" by jffry
in thread Strawberry Perl 5.12.3, CPAN, make file problems (dmake.exe), DFSEP and backslash "\" by jffry

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