Term-Readline-Perl is maintained on CPAN, so I have forwarded this issue to that distro's bug queue: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=74466 Thank you very much. Jim Keenan --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=23075