manish.rathi has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have setup perl in environment variable PATH. When I execute "C:\perl>perldoc perldoc", I get following error message "C:\Perl>perldoc perldoc Can't spawn "cmd.exe": No such file or directory at C:/Perl/lib/Pod/Perldoc.pm l ine 1515. Can't spawn "cmd.exe": No such file or directory at C:/Perl/lib/Pod/Perldoc.pm l ine 1515. Can't spawn "cmd.exe": No such file or directory at C:/Perl/lib/Pod/Perldoc.pm l ine 1515." Why is it so ? How can I get correct output ?

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Re: perldoc error
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 17, 2009 at 02:15 UTC
    You did it wrong, and cmd.exe is no longer in your path 
    set path=%windir%\system32
set path=%path%;%windir%
set path=%path%;%windir%\System32\Wbem
set path=%path%;C:\Perl\bin\

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      AnonyMonk may well be correct, but it might be well to find out what's actually in your path before tweaking it.

      Typing path from ANY command prompt will tell you.

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Re: perldoc error
by Bloodnok (Vicar) on Feb 17, 2009 at 11:18 UTC
    As brother anonymous has suggested, it looks like you have overwritten (c/w appending to) your system path environment variable with your own i.e. 
    SET PATH="C:path_to_my_perl"

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    instead of ... 
    SET PATH=%PATH%;"C:path_to_my_perl"

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    By doing so, you remove all the standard paths that Windoze uses to find its detritus - such as, for example, <c>cmd.exe>/c>...

    A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))
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