All, I'm download package called term::readpassword and i cannot get it installed right,so here is what i did 1- i unzipped the file"Term-ReadPassword-0.01.tar.gz" into "lib" directory under "perl"directory 2-i got his directory "Term-ReadPassword-0.01" under "lib" 3- in the dos prompt i typed the following "C:\Perl\lib\Term-ReadPassword-0.01>c:\perl\bin\perl Makefile.pl" and i got the following "Writing Makefile for Term::ReadPassword" 4-when i type the following "C:\Perl\lib\Term-ReadPassword-0.01>make install" i got the following "'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file." also i replaced "make " with "dmake" and "nmake" i'm still cannot install it. any help please

In reply to install perl packages on Win2000 by Anonymous Monk

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