phil, ian, hi, http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2007/12/msg00040.html apologies i realise this was 5 years ago but was any progress made, here? 3 years ago i also tried tackling a port of dpkg to mingw32 (actually, MSYS mingw32 runtime running under wine - yes it works it's just doogggg slow but they found some bugs in wine and fixed them) l.