Re: [MacPerl-WebCGI] need help with My first perl program

At 21:45 +0200 08/23/2002, Detlef Lindenthal wrote:
>
>A statement
>    . test.pl
>means: The lines of the file "test.pl"
>are interpreted as UNIX statements.
>But UNIX won't understand Perl statements.
>

Yes it will, because the first line of his script is the 
hash-bang/path of the perl interpreter.

In general, this will work with nearly any unix. Even the OS/390 USS 
understands it.