Rob ("syphilis")
Got past the first stage - then the 'perl -v:make' returned name as you correctly guessed, then tried 'nmake test' and it was reported that "nmake is not recogniszed as an internal, external command, operable program or bathc file".
I would guess that I don't have "nmake" on my machine
I forgot to mention in my original post that I don't have Microsoft DevStudio on my machine, nor a C compiler, which I have read are sometimes pre-requirements for installing modules for indigoperl.
Apologies - IPM is indeed the equivalent of PPM