re: problems with Guestbook script from "Official Guide ... CGI.pm"

2001-08-01 Thread Bertram, Paul
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problems with Guestbook script from "Official Guide ... CGI.pm"

2001-08-01 Thread Bertram, Paul
Folks, I have been teaching myself CGI/Perl. I have Lincoln Stein's book "Official Guide to Programming with CGI.pm". I have been trying to get his "Guestbook.pl" script to work. As a good newbie, the first thing I did was add "-w" to the shebang line and "use strict;". I was surprised at the nu