Wrote first perl script and manager tells me to make it an executable. Discovered PAR and downloaded. Did perl Makefile.pl which ran OK. Then did nmake and received the following error: C:\Program Files\Perl\Packer\PAR-Packer-0.982>nmake Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 1.50 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved. C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe "-Minc::Module::Install" -e "extract_pa r(q(PAR-Packer-0.982-MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8.8.par))" syntax error at -e line 1, next char ) Missing right curly or square bracket at -e line 1, at end of line Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' : return code '0xff' Stop. It looks like the line being complained about is coming from a file called Makefile. Can someone please explain to me what I should do now? Thank you.

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