Just press Control-D to skip that. I believe there's a way to disable the prompting. Often this feature of CGI.pm is a good thing, as it allows you to simulate submitting form variables, without having to tweak your code for the command-line test cases.
I've never been clear as to what toggles this to be on or off, but I'm guessing it's some flag in CGI.pm. -Alex Bruce Van Allen wrote: > 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;
