The code works, but I thoroughly recommend you use strict and warnings now while you're still fresh and impressionable :)

#!c:/www/perl/bin/perl.exe
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI::Carp('fatalsToBrowser');

$|=1;
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

my $user = $ENV{"REMOTE_USER"};

print "<p>$user</p>";
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I don't use Perl on Win32, but my guess is (depending on which Perl you're using maybe) that either:

• file associations aren't set up for .pl/pm files;
• the path to Perl is screwy; or
• your script's name does not end in a valid file extension.

just my .02

cLive ;-)

oh, ps - you might also want to learn the CGI module as well :)

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seek(JOB,$$LA,0);