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To use the CGI libaries to read input from forms note the following example:
#! /opt/local/bin/perl
use CGI qw(:standard);
$first_name = &param('first');
$last_name = &param('last');
 This will put in the variable "$first_name" the value of the form element "first" and in put in the variable "$last_name" the value of the form element "last". This works with either the post or get methods and will do the appropriate translations to get spaces and other special characters correct.

If you have downloaded the Sambar server for Windows 95/98 it comes with Perl but without the Perl libraries. For this you should download unzip the file perllib.zip, extracting it into directory c:\ being sure to use folder/directory names (use -d with pkunzip). The CGI library is already installed on the classes machine.