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"Robbie Hatley" <see DOT my DOT signature AT for DOT my DOT email DOT address> wrote in news:jbednbQ7qIihcJrVnZ2dnUVZ_i2dnZ2d AT giganews DOT com:

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> Is anyone here running DJGPP and Perl 5.8.8 on Win2K?  If so,
> please try this:  Run Bash, then at Bash prompt type
> "perldoc perl".  Do you get "invalid argument in perldoc.pm
> line 1483"?  Or does it work fine?

OK, I gave in and downloaded all the files on those painfully 
slow connections ;-)

bash-2.04$ perldoc -f time
    time
   Returns the number of non-leap seconds since whatever time the
            system considers to be the epoch, suitable for feeding to
... snip. ..

c:\opt\djgpp\tmp\ReFiSi3BxU (END)

The operating system is Windows XP SP2. LFN=y set.

bash-2.04$ perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.8 built for dos-djgpp-stdio

Copyright 1987-2006, Larry Wall

MS-DOS port Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, Diomidis Spinellis
djgpp v2 port (jpl5003c) by Hirofumi Watanabe, 1996
djgpp v2 port (perl5004+) by Laszlo Molnar, 1997-1999

It looks like you indeed do have a configuration issue. 
My original gut feeling was wrong.

Sinan
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