hi, i want my script to overlay a line of text onto an image backround...
would this work?
$imagefile = "myfile.gif";
binmode STDOUT;
print "Content-type: image/gif\n\n";
open FILE , $imagefile or die "error: $!"; print <FILE>;
close FILE;

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-Keith
-WebMaster@custom-perl.hypermart.net

Overlays can be done with StyleSheets, or if you want to do actual overlays you can use GD.

For what I think you are trying to do, the way to get browsers to overlay images is with stylesheets.