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Does AS1004 mean Activestate? If so, I suspect it's their fault, cos I've not noticed this behaviour on any of the several perls I've built since 5.10.1 came out, on all kinds of different platforms.

Or it's a Windows bug and it's not properly rendering colour codes. Have you loaded ANSI.SYS?

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Re^6: They've fscked with CPAN.pm again
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 14, 2009 at 16:53 UTC

    "5.10.0 (AS1004)" is BrowerUK's shorthand for "ActivePerl 5.10.0, build 1004". 

     Perl major version
      --
      1004
        --
    build number of
   that Perl version

    [download]

    It's ActiveState's 4th or 5th build of Perl 5.10. It happens to be a build of 5.10.0, but the minor version isn't specified by the build number.

    1006 was their first build of 5.10.1.

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Re^6: They've fscked with CPAN.pm again
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Sep 11, 2009 at 11:55 UTC
    Does AS1004 mean Activestate?

    Hm. The CPAN testers don't know. Says it all.

    Have you loaded ANSI.SYS?

    There is no such thing on my system. And it hasn't been necessary for 10 years or more.

    Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
    "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
    In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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      Does AS1004 mean Activestate?
      Hm. The CPAN testers don't know. Says it all.
      Who said that the CPAN Testers don't know? Just because I'm a CPAN tester and *I* don't know doesn't say a damned thing about any other testers.
      Have you loaded ANSI.SYS?
      There is no such thing on my system. And it hasn't been necessary for 10 years or more.
      Ah well, it was worth trying. Last time I did any non-trivial work on DOS/Windows, that was the correct question to ask when the shell display was screwed up like that.
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        Last time I did any non-trivial work on DOS/Windows, that was the correct question to ask when the shell display was screwed up like that

        It's relevant to the old command.com shell, but these days windows users are usually running a different shell (cmd.exe).
        Use of the command.com shell would now be very rare.

        Cheers,
        Rob
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