you don't need to use CPAN in the perl -MCPAN -e shell sense if you have ppm installed (i.e. it came with ActiveState's build of perl). at a command prompt type ppm install time-hires which will do it for you or you can just type ppm and enter the "shell" for ppm where the command you want is simply install time-hires

Hope this helps

   larryk                                          
perl -le "s,,reverse killer,e,y,rifle,lycra,,print"