From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 19 19:23:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au [202.14.186.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6D0737B4CF for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 19:23:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA09395 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 13:23:09 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from anwsmh@IPAustralia.Gov.AU) Received: from disc-4-161.aipo.gov.au(10.0.4.161) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au via smap (V2.0) id xma009385; Fri, 20 Oct 00 13:23:05 +1100 Received: from localhost (anwsmh@localhost) by stan.aipo.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA19572 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 13:23:04 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from anwsmh@IPAustralia.Gov.AU) X-Authentication-Warning: stan.aipo.gov.au: anwsmh owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 13:23:04 +1100 (EST) From: Stanley Hopcroft X-Sender: anwsmh@stan.aipo.gov.au To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.oRG Subject: ReadLine support in Perl (perl -de 1, cpan shell etc) broken in 4.1-RELEASE ? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, I am writing to ask, please would you provide me some suggestions about dealing with a vexing problme with Perl on two new 4.1-RELEASE installations ? The problem is that when Bundle::CPAN (1.57) is installed to get history and line editing (very useful in the debugger, where I spend a lot of time.), it doesn't work. When I press the uparrow key I hear a bleep and the previous lines input doesn't appear opposite the current debugger prompt eg this does *not* happen on the problem machines. DB<3> $x = "ReadLine fine here" DB<4> $x = "ReadLine fine here" # after pressing Up Arrow on a # 4.1-R box that was upgraded # with sysinstall. The problem occurs - under X and on a console - is not affected by changing the term type It does not happen on boxes that have been upgraded to 4.1-R with sysinstall. The commnand history and editing functions in the shell (/bin/csh) work fine. This may be a Perl problem rather than a FreeBSD problem; your telling me how to distinguish them would be helpful. Thank you, Yours sincerely. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message