E:\new>h2xs -AX Foo::Bar Writing Foo/Bar/Bar.pm Writing Foo/Bar/Makefile.PL Writing Foo/Bar/README Writing Foo/Bar/test.pl Writing Foo/Bar/Changes Writing Foo/Bar/MANIFEST E:\new>more "Foo/Bar/README" Foo/Bar version 0.01 ==================== The README is used to introduce the module and provide instructions on how to install the module, any machine dependencies it may have (for example C compilers and installed libraries) and any other information that should be provided before the module is installed. A README file is required for CPAN modules since CPAN extracts the README file from a module distribution so that people browsing the archive can use it get an idea of the modules uses. It is usually a good idea to provide version information here so that people can decide whether fixes for the module are worth downloading. INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DEPENDENCIES This module requires these other modules and libraries: blah blah blah COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Put the correct copyright and licence information here. Copyright (C) 2002 A. U. Thor This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.