in reply to Why doesn't the system function pass the CGI parameters in?

print h1(system("./test7.pl name=5 val=3 x=13 > temp.dat; mv temp.dat +temp1.dat"));

You sure that "./test7.pl" will work given your webserver's default directory? I'm betting that it won't ...

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