I find it a bit strange too. Althought forementioned, I was really suprised that when I saved the output from FireFox to a file, that file contains nothing except the newline. Flock browser gave me the same result. However, I managed to save correctly with links (I didn't try it with old good lynx, I don't have it).

At first I thought it had something to do with the system function so I try to reproduce it with a simple script (system.cgi): 

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
system 'uptime';

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but it ran well on FireFox, it displayed the text on the browser, I could save it to a file, and the content is: 
$ cat /tmp/uptime-system.cgi
 09:08:55 up  1:10,  4 users,  load average: 1.23, 0.80, 0.48

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However, I'm a bit curious to see the appearantly overlapping code below the while {} block in convert_word2.cg. You may try to remove that code that reopen the $out file and let fiction_word_to_txt prints its output directly to the browser so you don't have to redirect it to a temporary file, like: 
system("/home/bcrowell/Documents/programming/scripts/fiction_word_to_t
+xt <$in") and die "error executing fiction_word_to_txt: $!\n";

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Another possible option is to convert the doc file on the fly without external program so it works with filehandle. In other words, streaming the file. Is fiction_word_to_txt a Perl program? See also if OLE::Storage can help you.

Open source softwares? Share and enjoy. Make profit from them if you can. Yet, share and enjoy!

In reply to Re: CGI outputs plain text -- can't "Save Page As?" by naikonta
in thread CGI outputs plain text -- can't "Save Page As?" by bcrowell2

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