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I thought I posted this, but I guess the forum gods found me unworthy on my first attempt.

Anyway, I'm trying to get an HTML form processing script going for the company website here, so I'm diving head-first into perl. I've found some online tutorials that are pretty handy and have learned most of what I need. Unfortunately, I never enjoyed coding enough to want to do things like parsing, so I did a little research and found the parsing features of cgi-lib, which are supposed to do all the work for you. Unfortunately, every time I link it into one of the scripts I make, the web server I'm using returns a big fat error message. I've run the script in a telnet session and it says that the require command is not recognized. Here's the HTML form and script I'm using. I've changed all the <>'s to ()'s so I can actually post this

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(HTML)
(BODY)
(FORM method="post" action="http://forms.rainforesttelecom.com/cgi-bin/testform.cgi">
Name: (INPUT TYPE="text" name="username" size="30")
(BR)
(INPUT TYPE="submit")
(/FORM)
(/BODY)
(/HTML)

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#!/usr/bin/perl

require "cgi-lib.cgi";

&ReadParse(*input);

$uname= $input{'username'};

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "(HTML)(BODY)";

print "Hi $uname, welcome!";

print "(/BODY)(/HTML)";

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use CGI;

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