From: Uri Guttman >>>>>> "BM" == Bob McConnell <r...@cbord.com> writes:
> BM> Yes, that was all one line. Lookout doesn't give me any options to > BM> prevent it from wrapping. Microsoft _always_ believe they know what's > BM> best for you. > > so don't use outhouse for mail. simple! Not my choice. It is decreed from on high and cannot be changed as long as I need a regular paycheck. > BM> In the meantime, I need to know what the difference is between the 3.17 > BM> and 3.21 archives on CPAN. Why does one work and the other not? > > i can't imagine anything diff on the cpan modules as i did unzip both of > them. it must be something with your local box and setup. not much more > i can do from here. sorry. Looking at the two tar files with a binary viewer after uncompressing them through gzip, I see several differences, but other than the obvious, I don't know which are significant. The obvious difference is that the tar file headers for 3.17 all have absolute paths for each file. The 3.21 headers do not. The 3.21 headers also contain more fields and some are padded differently, but I don't know what effect this would have. Doing a text comparison also suggests that 3.17 was in a Subversion archive, while 3.21 is now in a GIT archive. I don't believe that should have any impact on this problem, but it does suggest there may have been some tooling changes that could contribute to this problem. Has the tar file format been changed in the last, say ten years or so? Or are there variations that not all utilities will recognize? Bob McConnell -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
