pgduke65:

If you don't mind a bit of VBScript programming, you could use your web browser without having a web server by creating an "HTML Application". They're not my favorite way of doing things, but it's a relatively easy way to cobble up a "pretty" front end. The concept is that you have an HTML form with some VBScript code behind it. In that VBscript code you can execute your perl scripts and such. If you want to find information about it, do a web search on "HTA application" and you'll get some useful results.

I've made exactly *two* of these in my life. I found them a little annoying to build/debug, but that's not necessarily and indictment of them, as I also find web applications, HTML and javascript all annoying anyway. (I'm a console/CLI guy, and if you look at my screen at any given time, you'd normally see it plastered with console windows, except when I'm web-surfing.)

...roboticus

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