i'm sure this is a simple thing but it's not working the way i thought it would ( like life itself ). i want to generate an image in the middle of a page with a cgi script. I thought that the simple scrit should do it: 
<html><head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"
+>
<title>My pics</title>                      
</head>
<body background="../images/paperbgnd.jpg">
<img alt = "bupkiss" src = "../next_pic.cgi">
...
where next_pic.cgi:

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "../images/pic1.png";

[download]
... i get bupkiss;
the isp says cgi scripts should execute from 'anywhere'....
scrit perms are 755.

where have I strayed from the path?

In reply to Output image with cgi script by daddyo

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