in reply to Re: ppm initiation issues
in thread ppm initiation issues

I cannot duplicate this issue with my version of ppm and win (see details below); however, you should be able to run ppm from the command prompt, though I don't believe that is explicitly stated in any documentation. At least, you certainly ought to be able with Active-Perl installed.

Microsoft Windows 2000  Version 5.00.2195
(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.

C:\>ppm
PPM - Programmer's Package Manager version 3.1.
Copyright (c) 2001 ActiveState Corp. All Rights Reserved.
ActiveState is a devision of Sophos.

Entering interactive shell. Using Term::ReadLine::Stub as readline library.

Type 'help' to get started.

ppm>

Update: Removed brackets around windows version and html changes.
# r/020505

/renz.
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