problem installing zeta perl for ActivePerl

[Edward Spodick, HKUST Library, 2358-6743]

Has anyone successfully installed the 'Zeta perl' perl package for use with Windows' ActivePerl program?  We have downloaded the windows package from the developers' site, but have been unable to successfully install it with either nmake or the ppm program.  If anyone has succeeded, we'd love to know what we're doing wrong.

What we're trying to do is script z39.50 queries from the command line, which would retrieve a specified record, without giving a lot of prompts requiring user interaction, and ideally with some customization of the output format.  The Isite client did not quite meet our needs, and zeta perl sounds promising.

-Spode
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Edward F Spodick, Systems Librarian - lbspodic at ust.hk
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Library
tel:  852-2358-6743     fax:  852-2358-1043