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Okay, thanks.

The reason I think that applying the disable in CPAN.BAT is good idea is that (I assume) people using *nix emulators (Cygwin Strawberry etc.) where they would need the ReadLine support, will probably not invoke cpan via a .BAT file?

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Re^5: CPAN and readline on windows
by xdg (Monsignor) on Mar 25, 2009 at 19:08 UTC

    Depends what comes first in the PATH. {grin}

    I find that the minimal readline support on Windows is useful enough that having it on doesn't bother me too much.

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        I don't get history between cpan shell sessions, but I can hit the up-arrow to get previous lines. Crippled versus readline on *nix, but handy on occasion.

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