Subject: | side effect of installing Strawberry Perl v5.12.3 on Windows 7 |
Date: | Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:45:27 -0500 (EST) |
To: | bug-Perl-Dist-Strawberry [...] rt.cpan.org |
From: | jschortz2 [...] aim.com |
Hello,
I couldn't find this "bug" on the Active bugs list, so I thought I would report it.
After installing Strawberry Perl v5.12.3 on Windows 7, I was unable to run common commands in a command prompt window (i.e. ping, ipconfig, etc., would result in, "... not recognized as internal or external command").
I tracked this down to a missing semi-colon (';') at the end of the information that the installer added to the PATH environment variable:
C:\strawberry\perl\bin
must be:
C:\strawberry\perl\bin;
Not sure when Windows became touchy about ending the string with a semi-colon, but once I updated the PATH contents to include it, I was again able to run ping, ipconfig, etc.
Best regards,
John Schortz