Aaron said:
I don't think it's the Perl installation. It just so happens that I did a
full mfg re-installation a couple of days ago. It didn't work before on Perl
5.8.2, and since I had to re-install everything I upgraded Perl to 5.8.4
also. Still not working.
Is anyone getting to STDIN using Win XP *Home Version* ? I'm beginning to
believe it might not be available in the home version.
This is an example of running CGI.pm on Windows XP Home Edition.
C:\temp>type cgi-test.pl
# CGI script that creates a fill-out form
# and echoes back its values. (From 'perldoc CGI'.)
use CGI qw/-debug :standard/;
print header,
start_html('A Simple Example'),
h1('A Simple Example'),
start_form,
"What's your name? ",textfield('name'),p,
"What's the combination?", p,
checkbox_group(-name=>'words',
-values=>['eenie','meenie','minie','moe'],
-defaults=>['eenie','minie']), p,
"What's your favorite color? ",
popup_menu(-name=>'color',
-values=>['red','green','blue','chartreuse']),p,
submit,
end_form,
hr;
if (param()) {
print "Your name is",em(param('name')),p,
"The keywords are: ",em(join(", ",param('words'))),p,
"Your favorite color is ",em(param('color')),
hr;
}
C:\temp>perl cgi-test.pl
(offline mode: enter name=value pairs on standard input; press ^D or ^Z when don
e)
name=Joe
words=moe
color=blue
^Z
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US"><head><
title>A Simple Example</title>
</head><body><h1>A Simple Example</h1>
<form method="post" action="/cgi-test.pl"
enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
What's your name? <input type="text" name="name" value="Joe" /><p />
What's the combination?<p />
<input type="checkbox" name="words" value="eenie" />eenie
<input type="checkbox" name="words" value="meenie" />meenie
<input type="checkbox" name="words" value="minie" />minie
<input type="checkbox" name="words" value="moe" checked="checked" />moe<p />
What's your favorite color? <select name="color">
<option value="red">red</option>
<option value="green">green</option>
<option selected="selected" value="blue">blue</option>
<option value="chartreuse">chartreuse</option>
</select><p />
<input type="submit" name=".submit" />
<div><input type="hidden" name=".cgifields" value="words" /></div>
</form><hr />Your name is<em>Joe</em><p />
The keywords are: <em>moe</em><p />Your favorite color is <em>blue</em><hr />
C:\temp>
OST_MAX=1024 * 100;