[gscraper]

Well, it wasn't Dreamweaver...I was using MacPerl to edit the MSA script, but for some weird reason the nms script was too big to open in MacPerl or any of the word processing programs on the Mac, so I switched it over to the IBM and edited it there in Word. Unfortunately, Word added some characters to the front unbeknownst to me, so I went and found an installation CD for AppleWorks, which opened the script fine on the Mac. Now, I've fixed all the problems I had to start with, but the script now opens a page that says:

CGI Error
The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:

And that's it. Blank after that. I contacted the server host (I hate doing that, because they almost always make you feel stupid for not knowing what they know) and got a short reply from them that said:

The formmail script from Matt's Script Archive is dependent on sendmail in a
unix environment. At the least you would need a copy of blat.exe installed
in your webspace to make it work.

Which is fine, I'm going to go look it up to figure out what the hell they're talking about- but I can't run any .exe file on this Mac. Well, we'll see what happens...

[Arowana]

I have the formmail script from Matt's Script Archive myself and it works fine. Then again, I run sendmail on linux...

Your problem interests me. I don't think it's a permissions problem. One problem I can think of is that, if you download the unix-based script, then FTP it to a Windows server, the nl end of the path on the first line would change to cr. That will screw things up. Unfortunately, I am pretty new to perl myself, and I only know how to fix that when a Windows perl script comes to a unix machine, not vice versa which could be your problem.

To basically describe what I mean: Say I download a perl script that was created on a windoze macine. I MUST run "dos2unix filename" at a unix command line to convert it to work on unix.

Perhaps that's the similar trouble you are having, and you need to fond a way to convert a unix-based script to windows compatibility.

Another problem I can think of is this. That foarmail script from Matt's is great and all, BUT it was written BEFORE cgi.PM. It predates it. That could be a problem. Throughout my learning experience, I eventually plan on rewriting that script to comply with cgi.PM. If anyone else has already done it, I'd love to see it. I hope that helps, but like I said, I'm a newbie, too.

Good luck, friend.

Chris

[vivichie]

I have a php and a html code for which the html code link to the php upon submitting of the form.. but y it doesnt sent to my email??