Re^2: C:\Documents is not recognised as an internal or external command, program or batchfile.

I tried this for the $^X example above, and it doesn't help. I wish it did.

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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I also tried updating Config.pm to have C:/progra~1/perl. This also didn't help.

- j

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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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