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in reply to Have CGI call script, display status in browser

Sounds like you've got a misunderstanding.

Point the form you are submitting to the cgi script you want to run. E.g. <form action='foobar.cgi' method='post'>

Then make the script parse the form inputs and print out an HTML page. E.g.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w # this is foobar.cgi use strict; # untested use CGI; my $cgi = new CGI; print $cgi->header, $cgi->start_html; print "You entered " . $cgi->param('form_input_name') . "<br>"; print $cgi->end_html; exit;

No need to use system. dave hj~