I have a perl cgi script which parses a form, and creates output in the browser window from which the form was submitted. I want to open another window as well, one which is non-existent until the script opens it.
The html "target" thingy doesn't seem to work, and I can't get one to open using javascript either.
Mind you, I don't really know what I am doing.
I probably haven't even explained my problem very well ...

Trying javascript 

print "<script>\n";
print "function open_window(url) \{\n";
print "mywin = window.open(url,\"win\",'toolbar=0,location=0,directori
+es=0,statu
s=0,menubar=0,scrollbars=0,resizable=0,width=520,height=350')\;\n";
print "\}\n";
print "</SCRIPT>\n";
print "mywin.document.write('WriteThisToTheNewWindow')\;\n";

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trying "target" 
print "<a href=http://www.perlmonks.org target=window2></a>\n";

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In reply to How to get CGI form to also open another window (was "CatsPaw") by Anonymous Monk

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