Re: C:\Documents is not recognised as an internal or external command, program or batchfile.

You may want to change your PATH variable

from 
   PATH=.... C:/Documents and Settings/BioGeek/Perl; ...

to
   PATH=.... C:/DOCUME~1/BioGeek/Perl; ...
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This "dumbed-down" path should not effect existing code, but will allow space-unaware code to work.

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Re^2: C:\Documents is not recognised as an internal or external command, program or batchfile.
by jimbojones (Friar) on Apr 14, 2005 at 21:03 UTC

$^X

C:\Documents and Settings\jim>set PATH=C:\progra~1\perl\bin;%PATH%

C:\Documents and Settings\jim>which perl.exe
C:\progra~1\perl\bin\perl.exe
C:\Program Files\Perl\bin\\perl.exe

C:\Documents and Settings\jim>perl -e "print $^X"
C:\Program Files\Perl\bin\perl.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\jim>
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C:/progra~1/perl

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Re^3: C:\Documents is not recognised as an internal or external command, program or batchfile.

by PodMaster (Abbot) on Apr 15, 2005 at 01:16 UTC

use Win32;
use Config();
use File::Spec;
$^X = Win32::GetShortPathName($^X);
do File::Spec->catfile( $Config::Config{bin}, 'cpan.bat' );
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