Yes, but it [CPAN.pm] also will download the files and should get the line endings correct.

From the original posting:

I downloaded an unpackged the tgz file

So unless you can explain some way to download a compressed tar archive in such a way that the archive still successfully uncompresses and extracts but the line endings in the internal files are changed, I don't see how the downloading could have been the problem.

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")