Problem installing IO::Scalar

[dank]

ok i deleted \perl and \.cpan and reinstalled perl, place nmake in /perl/bin and typed perl -CPAN -e shell, said no to the manual config

IO-stringy-2.109/README 
Removing previously used \.cpan\build\IO-stringy-2.109 

  CPAN.pm: Going to build E/ER/ERYQ/IO-stringy-2.109.tar.gz 

Checking if your kit is complete... 
Looks good 
Writing Makefile for IO-stringy 

IBM(R) Program Maintenance Utility for Windows(R) 
Version 3.50.000 Feb 13 1996 
Copyright (C) IBM Corporation 1988-1995 
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. 1988-1991 
All rights reserved. 

        @ C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe "-MExtUtils::Command" -e mkpath blib\lib 
NMAKE :  fatal error U1081:  '@' : program not found 
Stop. 
  "C:\perl\nmake.exe"  -- NOT OK 
Running make test 
  Can't test without successful make 
Running make install 
  make had returned bad status, install seems impossible 

cpan>

back to the original error...
i am gonna see if i can find a perl forum or something, will keep reply if i hit on anything...