starting perl

2004-05-02 Thread Charlie davis
>From what I can remember I am running MSDOS version 6.0 (I thank) and the version of >perl is perl 5.8 But when I type what it says in the book I am getting an error messagethat states that I have entered a bad command or filename what I am entering is c:\> perl -w -e "print \ "Hello, World!\n\

Re: Apache error 500: malformed header from script

2004-05-02 Thread Jan Eden
I solved the problem and apologize for the inconvenience. I overlooked a certain print statement which would be sent to the browser before printing a header under certain circumstances. Thanks - Jan Jan Eden wrote on 02.05.2004: >Hi all, > >I initially posted this to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail

Apache error 500: malformed header from script

2004-05-02 Thread Jan Eden
Hi all, I initially posted this to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list, but it seems to be more of a CGI problem. This is the situation: 1. My script (edit.pl) reads a row of data from a database and displays it in an html form for editing. 2. On submitting, the same script is called (in 'commi