It was a three line Makefile.PL but like you I had to kill the VERSION_FROM bit as there is no $VERSION in it. I never use ABSRACT_FROM because it chokes on older perls. I should have included the EXE_FILES key (bad tachyon) as this gets nmake() to install these files in /perl/bin as .pl and .bat files

As you also note I ignored the MANIFEST issue. When MakeMaker can't find a MANIFEST it just ignores the issue.

Hat's off for doing it more thoroughly!

use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
WriteMakefile( 
    'NAME'        => 'PerlMonks', 
    'EXE_FILES'   => ["getchat.old.pl", "getchat.pl", "getpage.pl", "p
+mpager.pl" ],
);
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cheers

tachyon

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