Hello I installed the latest version of XAMPP (1.7.4) on my windows xp system. Now when i want to install Pear:

k:\xampp\php>go-pear.bat

I am confronted with the following error:

manifest cannot be larger than 100 MB in phar "K:\xampp\php\PEAR\go-pear.phar"PH P Warning: require_once(phar://go-pear.phar/index.php): failed to open stream: phar error: invalid url or non-existent phar "phar://go-pear.phar/index.php" in K:\xampp\php\PEAR\go-pear.phar on line 1236

Warning: require_once(phar://go-pear.phar/index.php): failed to open stream: pha r error: invalid url or non-existent phar "phar://go-pear.phar/index.php" in K:\ xampp\php\PEAR\go-pear.phar on line 1236 Press any key to continue

Line 1236 on in the go-pear.phar is this:

require_once 'phar://go-pear.phar/index.php'; __HALT_COMPILER();<

And after the last < there is a weird character sign. And if i take away that charachter I can't it doesn't help. She the image below for the character.

Any help is very much appreciated.