I have coded my understanding of the original program, using a package to simulate one of the modules. My only contribution was to 'export' the hash with a symbol table assignment. Had I used a true module, I could have used the normal export mechanism. I did not think of that. This simulation was not able to duplicate the debug problem. Perhaps frogsausage can use this as start to demo that problem.
Bill
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