in reply to Win32::OLE and Explorer.exe

I don't remember an OLE interface to Explorer.exe, but the following works for me by spawning an Explorer window:

  my $explorer = 'c:/winnt/system32/explorer.exe';
  my $directory = 'D:\\';
  system($explorer,$directory) == 0
    or die "Error starting $explorer : $!/$?";

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perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ;    # The  
$d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider
($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new   #in the
HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' #  web

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