Did you follow my advice of making sure that there is a newline at the end of your file?

Your code works for me if it has a newline at the end, and it fails like you described if it does not have a newline at the end. One way to also make it work is to add a comment at the end of the file:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
print"Content-type:text/html\n\n";

print<<"ending_print_tag";
<html>
<head>
<title>My first CGI</title>
<background="#oooooo" text='#FF0000">
</head>
<body>
<h1>My First CGI</h1>
<em>HELLO, INTERNET!</em>
<hr noshade>
Watch our cyber space, another programmer is on the loose ;-)
</body>
</html>
ending_print_tag
# This is the end of the file and to make sure that we have a newline 
+after the end of the
# here-doc marker.

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In reply to Re^6: Testing scripts by Corion
in thread Testing scripts by zealf

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