perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Aug 19 17:13, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Sigh.  If I were the god of Cygwin, I would have not created textmode
> mounts at all.  I cannot see the point why it is neccessary to use it.

Full ACK!  Unfortunately the genuine gods of Cygwin have left the project
already long ago and they probably don't even know anymore what that should
have been good for.

> The only real reason why textmode is needed is that notepad cannot
> handle binmode (unix) textfiles.

What's "notepad"?


SCNR,
Corinna

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