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Re^4: Build Perl win32 with a ' ' in install dir
by afoken (Chancellor) on Jan 06, 2020 at 14:40 UTC

    ... and depending on the previous use of the filesystem, C:\Program Files does not always have the short filename C:\Progra~1. Use dir /x to find the short filename.

    Alexander

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