Hi all, I'm a Perl newbie, and have been searching for the answer to this, and haven't found it. I have found many other people with the same problem, but no solution yet...so I ask the monks. I am using nmake.exe (nmake15.exe), when I run it on both my windows XP machines I get the same error. 

C:\Perl\x\Parse-Binary-0.08>nmake

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.

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.

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Any ideas to why this might be...or how to fix it? Thanks! Nathan

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