Roboticus,

Thanks for your assistance. I commented out the CGI lines and it works fine. Maybe it's the way I learned to write dynamic web pages, but I always put all of my Perl files (with .cgi extensions) in a cgi-bin directory and execute them from there. And I've been putting in the 'use CGI' line from the beginning. I've never had a problem with it, and it works real well when passing data between forms. BTW, the whole point of my program was to control a green house in my garage - remotely via a web page - from my desk at work. It worked, so I am attempting to build on from there. FYI. Thanks again.