Can concatenate projection matrix with viewport transformation matrix?

As I understand it, the clip coords must first be divided with the Wc coord to yield NDC coords before the viewport transformation is applied…
However, the technique for projective textures calls for concatenating the projection matrix with the viewport transformation matrix(which consists of a scaling followed by a translation) into a single matrix which is then applied to the eye coords, finally performing perspective division with the Q coord to yield the actual texture coords.
Can this possibly be correct? I thought performing perspective division after viewport transformation would give different(and incorrect) results than performing perspective division before viewport transformation?

Puzzled.

Doesn’t the projection matrix already include the perspective divide?

Well, while the element in the last row/third column being -1 accounts for Wc being -Ze, the perspective division of Xc, Yc & Zc by Wc must take place before the scaling/translation of the viewport transformation in order for the window coordinates to turn out correct…and not after, since matrix multiplication is not commutative.
Otherwise the red book wouldn’t explicitly state that the perspective division takes place after projection transformation and before viewport transformation…might as well combine the 2 together and save an extra matrix multiplication altogether.
Not sure if this is correct or not…