[MacPerl] odd behaviour from CPAN

[robinmcf]

I've been trying to use CPAN.plx to get a copy of Bundle::DBI without success

I get the following errors:
Going to read Sirius A:Desktop Folder,Sirius A:Applications (Mac OS 
9):MacPerl �:site_perl:.cpan:sources:authors:01mailrc.txt.gz
# Could pipe[not_here --decompress --stdout Sirius A:Desktop 
Folder,Sirius A:Applications (Mac OS 9):MacPerl 
�:site_perl:.cpan:sources:authors:01mailrc.txt.gz |]: Operation not 
permitted, <FIN> line 1.
File 'Sirius A:Applications (Mac OS 9):MacPerl �:site_perl:CPAN.pm'; Line 4606

I looked at the source code and it seems to be choking here

=== Source Code ===
# CPAN::Tarzip::TIEHANDLE
sub TIEHANDLE {
   my($class,$file) = @_;
   my $ret;
   $class->debug("file[$file]");
   if ($CPAN::META->has_inst("Compress::Zlib")) {
     my $gz = Compress::Zlib::gzopen($file,"rb") or
        die "Could not gzopen $file";
     $ret = bless {GZ => $gz}, $class;
   } else {
     my $pipe = "$CPAN::Config->{'gzip'} --decompress --stdout $file |";
     my $fh = FileHandle->new($pipe) or die "Could pipe [$pipe]: $!";
     binmode $fh;
     $ret = bless {FH => $fh}, $class;
   }
   $ret;
}
=== Source Code ===

Compress::Zlib is installed so I think something else is amiss, but what?



Tech Specs:
MacPerl 5.6.1r1
OS 9.1