cgi programming in Perl

Hi,

I'm working from 'CGI Programming with Perl' from O'Reilly. I've
copied this program from the book.

#!/usr/bin/perl
print <<END_OF_HTML;
Content-type: text/html

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> about this server </TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1> About this Server </H1>
<PRE>
Listening on Port: $ENV(SERVER_PORT)
</PRE>
<HR>
</BODY>
,/HTML>
END_OF_HTML

into a file called server.cgi. Perl is on my machine. If I click on
it using Explorer then zilch. Its supposed to show up as an HTML file
with the server port displayed. Instead it simply does not appear at
all.

The first line looks like a piece of Unix - telling the machine to
execute the file using Perl in bin. I don't have Unix but XP. I do
have a directory C:/Perl/bin with a host of executables in it. Any
ideas on how to get this to go?

Mark

.

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