in reply to CPAN config problem under WIN XP

"Program Files" is also known as "Progra~1". You can go into your CPAN config file and modify all of the former to the latter and it should work.

(Again I wonder which genius at MicroSoft decided to make the default install location be a place the the OS cannot easily use??)

The intelligent reader will judge for himself. Without examining the facts fully and fairly, there is no way of knowing whether vox populi is really vox dei, or merely vox asinorum. — Cyrus H. Gordon

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom