No nmake to be found on this system. I searched my entire C: drive and only found that .lnk file, and I think that is some kind of saved search when I did a search for "nmake" in Explorer.

C:\
> dir nmake*.* /s
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is C85E-7FA1

 Directory of C:\Users\myid\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent

2012-02-16  14:02            11,688 nmake.lnk
               1 File(s)         11,688 bytes

     Total Files Listed:
               1 File(s)         11,688 bytes
               0 Dir(s)  89,554,558,976 bytes free

C:\
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The C: drive is my only local disk. My D: drive is the DVD, and I have a network drive with nothing but two data files in it.

Also, after firing up my command window, I trim the PATH down manually to just Strawberry Perl.

C:\
> echo %PATH%
C:\strawberry\c\bin;C:\strawberry\perl\site\bin;C:\strawberry\perl\bin

C:\
> nmake /?
'nmake' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
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Even with the complete PATH, I still don't have nmake in my path.

C:\strawberry
> nmake /?
'nmake' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\strawberry
> echo %PATH%
C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\Sys
+tem32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Windows\System32\Empirum;C:\P
rogram Files\Hummingbird\Connectivity\11.00\Accessories\;;C:\Program F
+iles\SlikSvn\bin\;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\;C:\stra
wberry\c\bin;C:\strawberry\perl\site\bin;C:\strawberry\perl\bin;C:\str
+awberry\c\bin;C:\strawberry\perl\site\bin;C:\strawberry\perl\b
in;C:\Program Files\PuTTY;C:\Users\jmm6ry\bin;C:\Program Files\GnuWin3
+2\bin
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So at this point, there must be some other reason for my make file getting created for nmake instead of dmake.