Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 08:17:15 +0200 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Reply-To: "Gerrit P. Haase @ cygwin" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <118334191391.20020402081715@familiehaase.de> To: "Muhammad Isa" CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: I'm having Trouble with 'readme' on CPAN In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hallo Muhammad, Am 2002-03-29 um 14:26 schriebst du: > Hi, A PERL QUESTION ??? > --------------------- > I was wondering if anybody has noticed a problem with the CPAN 'shell'. > With all other 'Net' applications shut down, it seems to behave quite well, > except when running the 'readme' routine. Hmmm, never used it... > It first says it's running the 'readme' routine, then goes quiet for a > few minutes, then the hard drive sounds like it's having a war with > something for 30 seconds, then finally displays a 1Kb readme in the 'less' > pager. On quitting the pager, it again makes a heck of a din for a while, > disconnecting from the net in the process, and maybe losing keyboard > functionality altogether. > I presume this is a 'Cygwin' related problem? (or perhaps set-up?). My > system info is as follows:- I have no problems here (this is perl-5.7.3, the upcoming perl-5.8), at least then it will work ok. > Overall, I am very pleased with 'Cygwin' and can see how much work is > going in to this project. I congratulate all those concerned. ;) Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/