D:\documents and settings\r330293>perl -MCPAN -e shell
Set up gcc environment - 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9205)
ReadLine support enabled

cpan> install PAR
Going to read D:\Perl\cpan\Metadata
  Database was generated on Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:27:09 GMT
Fetching with LWP:
  http://ppm.activestate.com/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Going to read D:\Perl\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt.gz
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Fetching with LWP:
  http://ppm.activestate.com/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
Going to read D:\Perl\cpan\sources\modules\02packages.details.txt.gz
  Database was generated on Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:27:16 GMT
...............
  New CPAN.pm version (v1.9402) available.
  [Currently running version is v1.9205]
  You might want to try
    install CPAN
    reload cpan
  to both upgrade CPAN.pm and run the new version without leaving
  the current session.


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Fetching with LWP:
  http://ppm.activestate.com/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Going to read D:\Perl\cpan\sources\modules\03modlist.data.gz
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Going to write D:\Perl\cpan\Metadata
PAR is up to date (0.994).