For testing purposes, set up your cgi-bin like this:
dbman (dir)
[all of your working dbman files]
test (dir)
[copies of all of the files, replacing the html.pl file with the short/long display file]
Once you get the "test" html.pl file exactly as you want it, move the html file from the test directory to the dbman directory and delete the test directory.
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Code:
cgi-bin (dir) dbman (dir)
[all of your working dbman files]
test (dir)
[copies of all of the files, replacing the html.pl file with the short/long display file]
Once you get the "test" html.pl file exactly as you want it, move the html file from the test directory to the dbman directory and delete the test directory.
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