Re: perl -MCPAN -e shell crashes w98se

[Graham Lamont <grahamlamont at ntlworld dot com>]

Gerrit,
>
>> Is it easy to install 5.61 instead ?
>
>Yes, using setup.exe should make it as easy as possible,

I installed 5.61, and managed to install DBI. However the system still 
froze completely (mouse/keyboard completely locked for 2+ minutes)
partway through the install.
Installing CPANPLUS failed, but for different reasons (attached).
Since CPAN seems to work I think I, will leave it as it is.
>

>Try `ls /usr/bin` in a bash shell, is it really empty?
>This is called a mount.  x:\cygwin\bin is mounted to /usr/bin and to
>/bin so you can access the files with both paths.
>See also the output of the command `mount`.

Thanks I didn't know about mount.

Kind Regards

Graham Lamont

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