Dear monks,

I have a perl tk program that I would love to be able to call
from a CGI script. I have a web database and some of its data needs to
be opened in my own customised perl tk GUI.

The first thing Im unsure of is, can a cgi FORM point to a perl program
or must it always point to a cgi ? (ie. using post or get)
I have been trying system calls like this:
system("perl my_program.pl") or die "System error";

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having changed permissions on my perl tk program to 0777.

Anyway, my system call doesnt work :(
I was wondering if it would be possible to make my perl tk program
into some sort of plug-in viewer ?
Any help would be great

cheers m'dears

In reply to Call Perl Tk program from CGI/making plugins ? by Anonymous Monk

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