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[T.E.Dickey]

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> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 12:56:40 -0600 
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> Hello.  I have a little lynx question for you.  I'm trying to hit a cgi 
> program from a unix 
>  
> command prompt.  I'm passing various fields in a query string by using a '?' 
> following 
> the cgi program name.  (ex.  http://.....cgi?NameAndValuePairs).  The cgi 
> program 
> then is supposed to validate the name and value pairs, and return a return 
> code 
> back to the browser.  But when I send all the fields, only the first one gets 
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> recognized.  I'm using the '&' to separate the different fields and that 
> didn't seem 
> to work.  I even tried using a '%26', and that failed also.  So i was 
> wondering if 
> there was some environment variable I needed to set, or exactly what I'm 
> doing 
> wrong here.  Any help would be appreciated. 
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> Thanks, 
> Trent o. 
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