in reply to Redirecting STDERR output to file in the cpan shell

A simpler solution would be to increase the number of lines you windows console remembers. If you click on the icon on the top left corner of the console you can change the preferences for the window, including increasing the number of lines recorded, and the width of the window.

It has been a while since I coded under windows, but as I recall, the default was 300 lines, and I always changed it to at least 3_000, sometimes more.

While you are in that menu, I would enable quick edit mode, as it makes it a lot easer to cut and paste stuff. (Such as pasting your error message into another post here). (Make sure you use <code> tags).

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by lancer (Scribe) on Dec 02, 2010 at 11:34 UTC

    Thank you for the excellent suggestion, chrestomanci.

    I have increased the number of lines for the console and the size of the window. Now I can see all the errors.

    And also thanks for the quick edit suggestion, it was really helpful too.

    Now I only have to figure out what causes the install to fail...

    Have a nice day! :)