in reply to When cpan returns the dreaded "won't install without force"
You can scroll any reasonable terminal with shift-PgUp/shift-PgDn. Or if you run your terminal with GNU screen, C-a ESC makes it scrollable a line at a time using the arrow keys. And finally, if you want to log the output from the CPAN shell, pipe through tee.
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