On Solaris 2.5/Apache I got a few troubles. One, ENV{TEMP} wasn't defined, so I did:

my $temp = $ENV{TEMP} || "/tmp";
...
# so then
my $today = "$temp/$yr$mo$mday.txt";
my $normfile = "$temp/.norm";
my $cookies = "$temp/.cookies";
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I also was getting a few 100 uninit errors so I:

if($i{sexisgood} and $i{'sexisgood'}=~/submit/){&msgsend()}
if($i{op} and $i{'op'}=~/message/){&sendit($i{'message'})}
if ( $i{n} ) {
  if($i{'n'}=~/norm/){&norm()}
  if($i{'n'}=~/self/){&self()}
}
print header;

if ( $i{n} ) {
  if($i{'n'}=~/hist/){&history()}
  if($i{'n'}=~/users/){&users()}
...
  if($i{'n'}=~/help/){&help()}
} else {  #  if  $i{n}
#unless($i{'n'} ){
  print<<HTML;
<title>framechat</title>
<frameset cols="*,20%" border="$fborder">
...
 </frameset>
</frameset>
HTML
}    # if ${n}

exit
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and finally, all my chat/msgs were showing up as arrar refs so I followed all the makelinks calls:

         &makelinks($message->{'content'});
         if ( ref($content) eq "ARRAY" ) {
            $content = join("", @{$content});
         }
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to get back text. I think:

  my $content = &makelinks($message->{'content'});
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would be a little nicer than the global $content, unless you need to get at it elsewhere. Finally, and, this isn't probably your doing, but all my boxes (behind the black) say:

Can't use string ("<CHATTER><INFO site="http://perl") as 
a symbol ref while "strict refs" in use at 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i86pc-solaris/XML/Parser/Expat.pm
+ 
line 451.
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I fear my xml isn't up to date. Pretty cool stuff, and well worth all that testing, though I loan you, heck give you the 50 or so extra spaces to use after 'my' ;-> Thanks for the code!

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