Reply to y'all (with my thanks!) You're right, the program has syntax errors and is not compiling correctly. Even so, what does seem to do nice error logging, however, is the

    BEGIN {
        use CGI::Carp qw(carpout);
        open(LOG, ">mycgi-log.txt")
            or die "Unable to append to mycgi-log: $!
";
        carpout(*LOG);
    }
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script, which is catching and printing my errors in the file and isn't too much trouble to consult. I just can't get the fatalstoBrowser to kick in.

Also, thanks for confirming the possible conflict with the $object designation and the qw(:standard) syntax.

laura.guimauve