Danny van Delft wrote:
> It's something else, somewhere deeper, probably in the
> Term::ReadLine module. IIRC, this module tries to guess on which OS it's
> running to determine which incantation to use so it can read input from
> the input device it's being called from. It doesn't know about MPE/iX,
> and guesses VMS (boy, this keeps coming up :-).
>
> There might be a newer version of perl available which has this fixed.

Whenever I've played with the CPAN stuff on my own machine, it generates lots
of nasty warnings & stuff, and the output looks very funky, but it does run and
do the downloads and the installs.

I have never been motivated enough to improve Perl's terminal I/O on MPE.  But
that shouldn't stop anybody else who is motivated enough, since the source code
is freely available, and I *totally* do not mind if other people improve the
MPE port of Perl.  :-)
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