I've encountered a strange prompt problem when running the CPAN shell in a Strawberry Perl environment under Cygwin.
When launching the CPAN using perl -MCPAN -eshell I get the following output:
cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9600)
Enter 'h' for help.
Please not that the standard cpan> prompt is missing. Why is that and how do I fix it?
When typing quit\n I get the prompt but after I issue the command:
quit
cpan> Lockfile removed.
This is a basic problem running interactive windows programs in a cygwin terminal window. I don't have a handy cygwin installation to try it on, but try either
cygstart perl -MCPAN -eshell
or install conin and do
conin perl -MCPAN -eshell