Re: SetConsoleMode failed, error in CPAN & PPM3 shells

On Friday, March 14, 2003 2:55 PM,
Randy Kobes <ran...@theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca> wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, John wrote:> >> In CPAN shell I get this:>> cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.59_54)>> ReadLine support enabled>> >> SetConsoleMode failed, LastError=|6| at>> E:/!PRG/Perl/Perl56/site/lib/Term/ReadKey.pm line 265, <STDIN> line>> 30. > > Try setting the TERM environment variable; eg>    C:\> set TERM=dumb

Thanks Randy 

That did the trick. Can you give a brief explanation?

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       John McMahon  (mailto:j...@bendigo.net.au)