These are the CGI:: modules for perl5, for use in writing CGI scripts. In addition to this package, you will also need the URI::Unescape class, which is part of the libwww-perl package. It can be obtained at any of the following CPAN archives: ftp://ftp.cis.ufl.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/ ftp://ftp.cs.ruu.nl/pub/PERL/CPAN/ ftp://ftp.delphi.com/pub/mirrors/packages/perl/CPAN/ ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/ ftp://ftp.is.co.za/programming/perl/CPAN/ ftp://ftp.pasteur.fr/pub/Perl/CPAN/ ftp://ftp.sterling.com/programming/languages/perl/ ftp://janus.sedl.org/pub/mirrors/CPAN/ ftp://orpheu.ci.uminho.pt/pub/lang/perl/ To install these modules, cd to the directory that this README file is in and type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make install Documentation for these modules is part of the files themselves using the pod (Plain Old Documentation) format, and can be read using the pod2man and pod2html programs that come with perl5.001. To convert them into manual page format, type something like the following: pod2man Base.pm > Base.man To convert them into html format, type: pod2html *.pm (pod2html automatically creates a file named *.pm.html) For your convenience, html-ized documentation is already installed in the doc/ subdirectory. Online documentation of these modules as well as related modules (such as the earlier CGI.pm module) can be found at: http://www.genome.wi.mit.edu/ftp/pub/software/WWW/CGIperl/ Many examples of CGI scripts of various degrees of complexity can be found at: http://www.genome.wi.mit.edu/WWW/examples/Ch9/ NEW IN VERSION 2.76, April 5, 1997: - Fixes for perl5.004. - File upload more reliable. Lincoln D. Stein lstein@genome.wi.mit.edu