in reply to Re^23: CPAN and readline on windows
in thread CPAN and readline on windows

TERM=dumb
is what makes it work.

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Re^25: CPAN and readline on windows
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Mar 29, 2009 at 05:04 UTC

    "aaaaah"!

      "aaaaah"!

      :-)))))

      I wonder what created that setting. Cygwin would be my guess, as its (bash) shell also reports TERM=dumb ... except that my XP laptop has never had Cygwin installed on it. The msys (bash) shell reports TERM=msys.

      Or maybe 'dumb' is the default - and you guys have done something to change it ?

      Anyway - another mystery solved. Nice work ikegami, BrowserUk.

      Cheers,
      Rob
        Its sneaky StrawberryPerl installer, via registry
        HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\En +vironment