in reply to how do I make my perl script readable by a browser with windows 98?

After the installation of Apache, all Perl scripts in cgi-bin directory of Apache should begin with: 
#!c:\perl\bin\perl -w

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the Apache will then execute the program you've put after #! string... so if your path to Perl is different, you should put that path.

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