On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Stephan Petersen wrote:
> When I fire up > perl -MCPAN -e shell; > and for instance try to install Config::Inifiles, it fails with strange > "02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header" > messages (see below). I see here that the file begins this way: File: 02packages.details.txt URL: http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt Description: Package names found in directory $CPAN/authors/id/ Columns: package name, version, path Intended-For: Automated fetch routines, namespace documentation. Written-By: Id: mldistwatch 530 2004-12-31 07:19:27Z k Line-Count: 30179 Last-Updated: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:39:54 GMT AAC::Pvoice 0.91 J/JO/JOUKE/AAC-Pvoice-0.91.tar.gz AAC::Pvoice::Bitmap 1.12 J/JO/JOUKE/AAC-Pvoice-0.91.tar.gz AAC::Pvoice::Dialog 1.01 J/JO/JOUKE/AAC-Pvoice-0.91.tar.gz Probably your file got damaged, I think. -- Greg Matheson, Taiwan -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/