You may want to try checking permissions. Also check linefeeds of you're moving the file back and forth between Windows and Unix (some ftp clients don't convert them). I just copied both of your code snippets into two separate files and hit it with my browser and it worked. I added some parameters to the query string, and got the outputPost data printing too.

test.cgi: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

require "functions.pl";

# define a hash to contain any "global" objects or variables
our %GLOBAL = (
  'query' => '',
    'test' => 'foobar!'
    );

$GLOBAL{'query'} = new CGI;

print CGI::header();
outputTest();
outputPOST();

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functions.pl: 
sub outputTest
{
          print $main::GLOBAL{'test'};
}

sub outputPOST
{
          print $main::GLOBAL{'query'}->Vars;
}

1;

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Hit the browser with http://192.168.1.102/test/test.cgi: 
foobar!

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Hit the browser with http://192.168.1.102/test/test.cgi?myvar=haha: 
foobar!myvarhaha

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In reply to Re: Accessing CGI objects from within a 'require'-ed file? by mbadolato
in thread Accessing CGI objects from within a 'require'-ed file? by Anonymous Monk

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