I've got Apache 1.3 installed on my home PC. I am able to access regular HTML pages but when I try to access a CGI script I get back Internal Server Error. I know that in most cases that means a problem with Premature end of script headers problem. However, when I looked in the error log for Apached I saw this: 
[Mon Feb 19 15:55:27 2001] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] couldn't spawn c
+hild process: c:/program files/apache group/apache/cgi-bin/test.pl

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ok,ok...maybe Windows is the start of my problems. Regardless, I have to have this on my Windows partition so my girlfriend can use this Web-App. The code for the test script is exactly the code from Ovid's CGI Course except for the she-bang line, for the sake of testing. 
#!c:\Perl\bin -wT
use strict;
use CGI;

my $query = CGI->new();

print $query->header( "text/html" ),
      $query->start_html(-title   => "My First CGI Script",
                         -bgcolor => "#ffffcc" ),
      $query->h1( "This is a pretty lame Web page" ),
      $query->p( "Who is this Ovid guy, anyway?" ),
      $query->end_html;

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Any help would be greatly appreciated.

- kel -

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