Re: how to execute a perl file in cgi?

2004-10-10 Thread Bill Jones
--- Xiangli Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since I want to analyse a complicated problem involved with one > file.pl, I am suspect the .pl file was not executed. I tried with > very simple file.pl only printing one line, but it does not work. The > following is the code: > > the cgi file >

Re: how to execute a perl file in cgi?

2004-10-10 Thread Bill Jones
--- Gunnar Hjalmarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Jones wrote: > > The third way - `` (back-ticks) is highly discouraged. > > Discouraged? Why? I thought that was depending on what exactly it is > you want to do, e.g. whether you want to capture the output from the > script you run. Wel