Hi Gerrit, Yeah, for most purposes hitting Enter gives you what you need, but something was weird was going on. The problem went away after I - (ug) rebooted. Have no idea how it happened -- had closed out the CMD-window and started with fresh windows, exiting all cygwin programs, but that didn't make it go away. Then I tried a reboot, since I couldn't think of anything else and the problem went away.
I don't usually think of rebooting to solve a problem on XP, as it isn't the standard "catchall" like it was under Win9x based systems. The nuances of Enter not being the same as a CR-LF are usually only important in something other than the standard "cooked" tty mode. I believe the CPAN scripts may have been using one of these modes. Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
I don't think I get this right. How do I distinguish between LF and CR? Just hitting <ENTER> at the keyboard should do it?
In the unix or linux tty-based world, ENTER, usually, is the same as a control-m, while linefeed is usually a control-j. In the standard "cooked" input mode, a control-m is accepted the same as though one typed control-j. Linda -- 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/