PATH=C:\Program Files\ActiveState Perl Dev Kit 7.3\bin;C:\Program Files\ActiveState Perl Dev Kit 7.1\bin;C:\Perl\site\bin;C:\Perl\bin;C:\Perl\util\;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;....
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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use lib ("C:/Perl/lib/Win32API");
use Net;
# this works #
# without this lib() or modification to %path%, Net.pm is not found
# 
# I guess that it could be that Net.pm is not intended to be used
# directly, but that some other module uses it via some mechanism of
# which I am unaware.