The commands seemed to work, although its not completing the install. I also had to punch a few holes in my firewall. haha! Not knowing a lot about this way of compiling I'd probably need to research more. I'll have to look into it later or consult the group in another thread. Below is the trail end of the install to show the error. If you wish to respond write me at crabbdean at hotmail.com rather than dirty this thread with an adjunct conversation.

Removing previously used \.cpan\build\Win32-API-0.41

  CPAN.pm: Going to build A/AC/ACALPINI/Win32-API-0.41.tar.gz

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for Win32::API::Callback
Writing Makefile for Win32::API
    -- OK
Running make test
   test -- NOT OK
Running make install
  make test had returned bad status, won't install without force
Running make for D/DR/DROBERTS/File-Repl-1.20.tar.gz
  Is already unwrapped into directory \.cpan\build\File-Repl-1.20

  CPAN.pm: Going to build D/DR/DROBERTS/File-Repl-1.20.tar.gz

    -- OK
Running make test
   test -- NOT OK
Running make install
  make test had returned bad status, won't install without force
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Cheers
Dean