That's because you need a HTTP server to process HTTP requests and spawn CGI scripts.

Probably the easiest way to get this to work quickly is to use a simple HTTP server like the one I pointed to in my post), especially since you're apparently still using a default browser to look at the HTML pages (IE just embeds in the explorer window if you have it as the default browser) - you could just as well make a perl (or .bat) script that starts the HTTP server and then points IE to the start-page.

But maybe I'm just misinterpreting what you're saying....

"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"

In reply to Re^2: Conversion from Web script to stand-alone by Joost
in thread Conversion from Web script to stand-alone by MonkPaul

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