ok people, I was able to get what I needed using OO CGI. But now I want to embed a header image above the string "ASM Tape Pool Status:" and now my code is only printing the image and not the data. Any ideas? thank you, derek 
#!/usr/bin/perl 
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;
#use GD;

$ENV{"PATH"} = qq(/opt/SUNWsamfs/sbin:/usr/bin);

#sub image
#{
        my $imgtype = qw(gif);
        my $imgpath = qq(/var/apache/htdocs/images/logo.gif);
#
        open (IMAGE, $imgpath) or die $!;
#        print "Pragma: no-cache\n";
#        print "Content-type: image/$imgtype\n\n";
#
#        while (read(IMAGE, my $buffer, 16_384) )
#        {
#                print $buffer;
#        }
#
#        close (IMAGE);
#}

my $q1 =new CGI;
print   $q1->header( -type => "image/gif");
while (read(IMAGE, my $buffer, 16_384) )
{
        print $buffer;

my $q =new CGI;
print   $q->header,
        $q->start_html('OHIS ASM server: stkv440'),                   
+  # Header
        $q->h1({-style=>'Color:blue'},'ASM Tape Pool Status:'),       
+  # Body
        open (ARC, "archiver -lv |") or die $!;
        my $flag=0;
        while (<ARC>)
        {
                if (/(?i)allsets/)
                {
                        $flag=1;
                }
                if ($flag==1) 
                {
                        if (/(?i)total space available:/)
                        {
                                print "<p><b><font color=#0000CC><u>$_
+";
                        } else {
                                print "<p></b></font></u>$_";
                        }
                }
        }
        close (ARC);
        close (IMAGE);
        $q->end_html;
}

__BEGIN_DATA__

ASM Tape Pool Status:

allsets 


back.1 

media: sf 

Volumes: 

STK000 

Total space available: 58.8G 


back.2 

media: sf 

Volumes: 

STK005 

Total space available: 58.8G 


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In reply to Re^2: using CGI to output a system command by drock
in thread using CGI to output a system command by drock

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