OK. I was a newbie last week, but now I'm older and wiser. My first cgi macperl script worked perfectly for clients of my mac server, after a painful week. Since nobody lazy should go again thru these frustrating trial-and-errorS, I'll post a step-by-step approach for absolute beginners as soon as I get a bit more reliable. Newbies, look at http://www.halcyon.com/sanford/cgi/cgi-tour.html for that kind of help (really super-clear, but not mac-specific) Right. If I understood well, whenever you want a perl script to be usable from the web, you have to save it in macperl using "save as" "cgi script" (and not "plain text", which failed in my case) The problem is macperl won't open 100K files, and my next cgi is 132K. So I edit in BBedit. BBedit Lite won't allow a "save as" "cgi script" option. I swear I looked hard, trying all possibilities. So how do I do here? -is there a way to force macperl to open the file (ram alolocation failed) -or how do you all do? I'm sure you make large files, no? Enlighten me; please! cheers, tom ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch