I was sure that Re: Installing Perl on a Windows PC was wrong. Now I'm not so sure. As soon as I get under the bonnet it's like a big black hole.

I did notice this though:

C:\Win32-RASE-1.01>nmake test

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

C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe "-Iblib\lib" "-Iblib\arch" test.pl
1..6
ok 1
not ok 2
ok 3
ok 4
ok 5
not ok 6
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Many thanks for your help
btw, I thought your black hole looked a bit white!