Ummmm...you really need to give some more info here, Falazar. I tried it, and it worked fine. Try these steps:

1) Run with #!/usr/bin/perl -w to turn on warnings from Perl.

2) Put use strict; at the top of your code (after the #!/usr/bin/perl -w bit).

3) you need to use the CGI::Carp module; put  use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); at the top, and read up on it, as it will oftentimes tell you exactly what error Perl sees.

This does not look like a Windows 2000 problem, but without any error messages from you, or any idea what's going on except it fails (and works when I copy/paste the code for my WinNT/IIS combo here), I cannot help very much. Please let us know the details of where it is failing, and what the errors at are reports from the above procedures are. Also, are you using Apache, IIS, or another Web Server, as they have difference configuration issues.

----Asim, known to some as Woodrow.