For the sake of the archives, let me round this thread off by saying
that I eventually got it working.
XAMPP was causing a little grief - and after a little digging around
inspired by the input from this list, I found this buried deep in the
XAMPP forums relating to another problem.
I added this to the httpd.conf, and the whole thing BURST into life.
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PerlModule ModPerl::PerlRun
<Files ~ "\.pl$">
SetHandler perl-script
PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::PerlRun
PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
Options +ExecCGI
</Files>
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So thank you one and all for helping me out here.
--
Alan Williamson, Technology Evangelist
SpikeSource Inc.
http://compiledby.spikesource.com/
