From:	Mark J. Reed	Date:	Wed Jun 11 09:42:29 2008
Subject:	Re: cant untar

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Andy Armstrong <andy@hexten.net> wrote:
> tar is getting an unquoted pathname containing spaces - so it sees the name
> as three distinct arguments.

Which is an example of horribly sloppy programming somewhere in CPAN.
I can't believe we still have issues with spaces in filenames...

> A local fix would be to move your cygwin cpan to ~/.cpan (which probably
> maps to something like C:\cygwin\home\noah\.cpan in Windows) - no spaces.

I would guess rather that the reason the OP's .cpan is in C:\Documents
and Settings\noah is because that *is* ~.  In which case he would need
to change his home directory in cygwin's passwd file (or rerun cpan
config and point it someplace else..)

-- 
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>