Hi all.

Thanks for all the helpful suggestions. They were/are most appreciated. For those that are interested, I fixed the problem ( a minor side-effect of the learning process ). Here is the finished code snippet:

#!c:\perl\perl.exe -wT

use strict;
use CGI::Carp qw( fatalsToBrowser );
use CGI qw( :standard );

print redirect( "/login.htm" ) unless param( "Name" );
my $Name = param( "Name" );
my $Password = param( "Password" );

print header();   # CGI.pm method
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Simple yes, but I intend to build on this foundation. A very dedicated former college instructor of mine emailed and asked if I could help him set up a perl based user authentication script. With all he did for me, I wasn't about to let me him down.
Thanks again for all the help,

-DK