I installed and updated some modules today on my win2K machine using activeState's ppm utility. After I was done, ppm failed to run.
I got the following:

D:\>ppm
"break_at" is not exported by the Text::Reform module
Can't continue after import errors at C:/Perl/site/lib/Text/Reform.pm 
+line 43
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/Perl/site/lib/Text/Autoformat.
+pm line 9.

Compilation failed in require at C:\Perl\bin\ppm3-bin line 12.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:\Perl\bin\ppm3-bin line 12.
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text::Autoformat is one of the modules I updated (had no real need to do it, now that I think about it).

I looked at text::Reform.pm and discovered that it does not have a break_at procedure. I drilled down into text::Autoformat.pm and made the following modification:
premodification:

use Text::Reform qw( form tag break_at break_with break_wrap break_TeX
+ );
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postmodification (basically i removed the reference to break_at)

#use Text::Reform qw( form tag break_at break_with break_wrap break_Te
+X );
use Text::Reform qw( form tag break_with break_wrap break_TeX );
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I found the whole thing a bit odd (and still do) because I have had the most current version of text::Reform all along. It appears that text::Autoformat got broken upon its current iteration.

Well, at least that's how it is on my machine using activeState 5.8.3.809.

Just wanted to throw this out there as a warning to activeState users
davidj