Running PAR 0.75. Don't have a PATHEXT in my enviroment. .pl mapped to Optiperl. I don't think the .pl version is running; it would chatter to STDOUT. As should the .exe version.

Still stumped, still appreciative of any addntl ideas...

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    Name: PAR
 Version: 0.75
  Author: Autrijus Tang (autrijus@autrijus.org)
   Title: PAR
Abstract: Perl Archive Tookit
InstDate: Sun Nov 16 12:31:52 2003
Location: http://ppm.ActiveState.com/cgibin/PPM/ppmserver-5.8-windows.
+pl?urn:/PPMServer
Prerequisites:
       1. Module-ScanDeps 0.0
       2. Archive-Zip 0.0
       3. PAR-Dist 0.05
Available Platforms:
       1. MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8
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