Hi there,

I cannot appear to untar.  Any clues what I have misconfigured?



cpan> reload cpan
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224 subroutines redefined

cpan> install Bundle::CPAN
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/noah/.cpan/Metadata
   Database was generated on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:06:48 GMT
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok
Fetching with LWP:
   http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/Bundle-CPAN-1.857.tar.gz
CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok
Fetching with LWP:
   http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CHECKSUMS
Checksum for /cygdrive/c/Documents and 
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/A/
AN/ANDK/Bundle-CPAN-1.857.tar.gz ok
Scanning cache /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/noah/.cpan/build for sizes
gzip: and.gz: No such file or directory
gzip: 
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/Bundle-CPAN-1.857.tar.gz:
  No such file or directory
/usr/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive
/usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Uncompressed /cygdrive/c/Documents and 
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/A/
AN/ANDK/Bundle-CPAN-1.857.tar.gz successfully
Using Tar:/usr/bin/tar xvf /cygdrive/c/Documents and 
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources
/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/Bundle-CPAN-1.857.tar:
/usr/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive
/usr/bin/tar: and: Not found in archive
/usr/bin/tar: 
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/Bundle-CPAN-1.857
.tar: Not found in archive
/usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Couldn't untar /cygdrive/c/Documents and 
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/
A/AN/ANDK/Bundle-CPAN-1.857.tar


cpan> install Expect
Running install for module Expect
Running make for R/RG/RGIERSIG/Expect-1.21.tar.gz
Checksum for /cygdrive/c/Documents and 
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/R/
RG/RGIERSIG/Expect-1.21.tar.gz ok
gzip: and.gz: No such file or directory
gzip: 
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/R/RG/RGIERSIG/Expect-1.21.tar.gz: N
o such file or directory
/usr/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive
/usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Uncompressed /cygdrive/c/Documents and 
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/R/
RG/RGIERSIG/Expect-1.21.tar.gz successfully
Using Tar:/usr/bin/tar xvf /cygdrive/c/Documents and 
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources
/authors/id/R/RG/RGIERSIG/Expect-1.21.tar:
/usr/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive
/usr/bin/tar: and: Not found in archive
/usr/bin/tar: 
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/R/RG/RGIERSIG/Expect-1.21.t
ar: Not found in archive
/usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Couldn't untar /cygdrive/c/Documents and 
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/
R/RG/RGIERSIG/Expect-1.21.tar


cpan> install DateTime
Running install for module DateTime
Running make for D/DR/DROLSKY/DateTime-0.4302.tar.gz
Checksum for /cygdrive/c/Documents and 
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/D/
DR/DROLSKY/DateTime-0.4302.tar.gz ok
gzip: and.gz: No such file or directory
gzip: 
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/D/DR/DROLSKY/DateTime-0.4302.tar.gz
: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive
/usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Uncompressed /cygdrive/c/Documents and 
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/D/
DR/DROLSKY/DateTime-0.4302.tar.gz successfully
Using Tar:/usr/bin/tar xvf /cygdrive/c/Documents and 
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources
/authors/id/D/DR/DROLSKY/DateTime-0.4302.tar:
/usr/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive
/usr/bin/tar: and: Not found in archive
/usr/bin/tar: 
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/D/DR/DROLSKY/DateTime-0.430
2.tar: Not found in archive
/usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Couldn't untar /cygdrive/c/Documents and 
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/
D/DR/DROLSKY/DateTime-0.4302.tar


cpan> o conf
CPAN::Config options from /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/CPAN/Config.pm:
     commit             Commit changes to disk
     defaults           Reload defaults from disk
     init               Interactive setting of all options

     build_cache        10
     build_dir          /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/noah/.cpan/build
     cache_metadata     1
     cpan_home          /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/noah/.cpan
     dontload_hash
     ftp
     ftp_proxy
     getcwd             cwd
     gpg
     gzip               /usr/bin/gzip
     histfile           /cygdrive/c/Documents and 
Settings/noah/.cpan/histfile
     histsize           100
     http_proxy
     inactivity_timeout 0
     index_expire       1
     inhibit_startup_message 0
     keep_source_where  /cygdrive/c/Documents and 
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources
     lynx
     make               /usr/bin/make
     make_arg
     make_install_arg
     makepl_arg
     ncftp
     ncftpget
     no_proxy
     pager              /usr/bin/less
     prerequisites_policy ask
     scan_cache         atstart
     shell
     tar                /usr/bin/tar
     term_is_latin      1
     unzip              /usr/bin/unzip
     urllist
         http://www.cpan.org
     wget               /usr/bin/wget


cpan>

noah@noah-t43 /usr/local
$ perl -MCPAN -e shell

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.7602)
ReadLine support enabled

cpan> o conf urllist shift

cpan> o conf urllist
     urllist
Type 'o conf' to view configuration edit options


cpan> o conf
CPAN::Config options from /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/CPAN/Config.pm:
     commit             Commit changes to disk
     defaults           Reload defaults from disk
     init               Interactive setting of all options

     build_cache        10
     build_dir          /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/noah/.cpan/build
     cache_metadata     1
     cpan_home          /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/noah/.cpan
     dontload_hash
     ftp
     ftp_proxy
     getcwd             cwd
     gpg
     gzip               /usr/bin/gzip
     histfile           /cygdrive/c/Documents and 
Settings/noah/.cpan/histfile
     histsize           100
     http_proxy
     inactivity_timeout 0
     index_expire       1
     inhibit_startup_message 0
     keep_source_where  /cygdrive/c/Documents and 
Settings/noah/.cpan/sources
     lynx
     make               /usr/bin/make
     make_arg
     make_install_arg
     makepl_arg
     ncftp
     ncftpget
     no_proxy
     pager              /usr/bin/less
     prerequisites_policy ask
     scan_cache         atstart
     shell
     tar                /usr/bin/tar
     term_is_latin      1
     unzip              /usr/bin/unzip
     urllist
     wget               /usr/bin/wget