Well i have another problem, I had perl from perl.com, and active perl, and can't figure how to make the perl work, i've tried for weeks, and can't find a thing, on how to run the perl programs, but i mean from html, cuz i know how to run them from command prompt, but that only opens one kind of perl... i want to know how to get perl from html, or i know how to do that, but how to make it work with active perl, or just the normal perl from perl.com plz e-mail me at jamal_f@mail.cait.scps.k12.fl.us thx jamal