CPAN::Admin - A CPAN Shell for CPAN admins
perl -MCPAN::Admin -e shell
"register" calls "get" on the named module, assembles a couple of informations (description, language), and calls Netscape with the -remote argument so that a form is filled with all the assembled informations and the registration can be performed with a single click. If the command line has more than one argument, register does not run a "get", instead it interprets the rest of the line as DSLI status, description, and userid and sends them to netscape such that the form is again mostly filled and can be edited or confirmed with a single click. CPAN::Admin never performs the submission click for you, it is only intended to fill in the form on PAUSE and leave the confirmation to you.
"modsearch" simply passes the arguments to the search engine for the modules@perl.org mailing list at <http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de> where all registration requests are stored. It does so in the same way as register, namely with the "netscape -remote" command.
An experimental feature has also been added, namely to color already registered modules in listings. If you have Term::ANSIColor installed, the u, r, and m commands will show already registered modules in green.