Thanks for editing my text - whoever it was :) - I gotta brush up on my html.

So to print the format to STDOUT

I rename the format STDOUT like:

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

$name1 = 'whiteperl';
$name2 = 'batman';

format STDOUT = 
@<<<<<<< @<<<<<<<<
$name1   $name2
.

$~ = STDOUT; # Is this necessary?

print STDOUT;
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Will this work? Tripod CGI is very restrictive. I don't think that I have ever gotten a select() to work, so I use $~.

In the above, STDOUT isn't associated with a file handle. That's why I'm not too sure. But I'll go and see.