*sigh* 
C:\>ppm3
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+rary.

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ppm> rep desc 1
Describing Active Repository 1:
    Name: theory
Location: http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/cgi-bin/ppmserver?urn:/PPMServe
+r
    Type: PPMServer 2.0
ppm> s XML-XPath
Searching in Active Repositories
  1. XML-XPath [1.12] a set of modules for parsing and evaluating XPat
+h statements
ppm> d --dump 1
====================
Package 1:
<SOFTPKG NAME="XML-XPath" VERSION="1,12,0,0">
        <TITLE>XML-XPath</TITLE>
        <ABSTRACT>a set of modules for parsing and evaluating XPath st
+atements</ABSTRACT>
        <AUTHOR>Matt Sergeant, AxKit.com Ltd</AUTHOR>
        <IMPLEMENTATION>
                <OS NAME="MSWin32" />
                <ARCHITECTURE NAME="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread" />
                <CODEBASE HREF="http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppmpackag
+es/x86/XML-XPath.tar.gz" />
                <DEPENDENCY NAME="XML-Parser" VERSION="2,23,0,0" />
        </IMPLEMENTATION>
</SOFTPKG>
====================

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