At 10:35 AM -0700 4/12/02, drieux wrote: >volks, > >when I run > > perl Skank.pl > >on the command line on my solaris and/or unix boxes it takes >the default path through the code and dumps out what the html >would be - but when I run the same code on my OSX box it dumps >out a weird case: >[jeeves:/tmp/drieux/perl] drieux% perl Crap.pl >(offline mode: enter name=value pairs on standard input)
[snip] > >is this a feature or a bug? It's a feature of CGI.pm to allow offline mode. Otherwise it expects http/CGI input from STDIN. Why you're getting this behavior in your Mac OSX installation but not in others, I don't know, but I'd suggest starting with your usage of CGI.pm. Then maybe how your OSX command line takes args. HTH 1; -- - Bruce __bruce_van_allen__santa_cruz_ca__