Ok, first off, no pretty much everything youve said here is not correct. Sorry.

No need for apologies, I pretty much knew it would be when I posted it, hence the '?'s. But, with greatest of respect and thanks for your having posted this 'blow by blow on win32', without having done any further googles looking for specific keyphrases from the above, almost nothing of what you have posted relates to anything I have seen in any of the many, many online documents I have scanned looking for answers.

So the question is, how could I (or any other potential Win32 smoketest neophyte), have discovered this information other than by asking? You are now a well seasoned perl source diver/builder/tester/developer, but it has taken you something like 2 years of your free time to reach you current level of knowledge? I assume that you have acquired the knowledge that allowed you to arrive at the above, over some considerable subset of that period. And maybe with some assistance from your forbears and peers on the p5p lists?

Anyway, my greatest thanks for your having taken the time to write up the above. I will attempt to work my way through it this evening and record my progress and experiences. Assuming that I am able to achieve the desired result, I will write up a full step by step of the process and post it here in a new thread for others to see and perhaps use.

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