I patched this example together as a very simple program that is supposed to take the output from a form and produce another form with the parsed apart form entries. But it only returns a blank form. Am I missing something? NOTE: I am using a GTE sponsered web site and they told me I needed the first 3 lines exactly as shown. At least when I did this the "internal server" error went away and I at least saw a blank form returned. I am an experienced C++ and VB programmer, but Perl is brand new to me. And comments are welcomed. 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use CGI qw(:cgi-lib :standard);
print header();

# Geturl.pl

#
# A little Perl script to read, decode and print the names
# and values passed to it from an HTML Form thru CGI.

# Get the HTML header, ender, define the page title.

require "/cgi-local";    # full path ?  to what ?

# print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";  # another GTE addin

$Title = "Get Information From a URL";

# Get the query string

# $QueryString = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'};

# Use split to make an array of name-value pairs broken at
# the ampersand char.

@NameValuePairs = split (/&/, $QueryString);

# Put up an HTML header, page title, and a rule.

&HTML_Header ($Title);

print "<BODY>\n";

print "<H1>$Title</H1>\n";

print "<HR>\n";

# Split each of the name-value pairs and print them on the page.

foreach $NameValue (@NameValuePairs)
    {
    ($Name, $Value) = split (/=/, $NameValue);
    print "Name = $Name, Value = $Value<BR>\n";
    }

&HTML_Ender;

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