You could, if you're careful about how the other script works, use do("/path/to/other/script");

That works roughly like a C #include, which is why you'd have to be careful.

Or, make the cgi a shell script which calls your two perl scripts in succession (yes, that's legal, but probably wasteful as it would start the perl interpreter twice. That's why I recommend "do" first.

But I don't see why system("/path/to/ohter/script"); would be giving you problems. Can you be more specific?

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