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swiftone said:

With CGI Perl and Text::Template, I have command line scripts that are optimized to work with HTML browsers, but that function and are accessable without them.

Can you provide us with some samples of documents you have that work (seamlessly?) for both web service and command-line use?

On this topic, Tom Christiansen floated a paper across Usenet awhile back that you should try to get if possible, named "GUIs Considered Harmful". In it, he states that an application should be useable from programs, the command line and the GUI.

In reply to Having Perl scripts work with and without a web browser by princepawn
in thread Combining PHP and Perl by rodry

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