cgi-MetaCard Gremlin

[David Bovill]

> From: Nelson Zink <zink at newmex.com>
> Subject: cgi-MetaCard Gremlin
> 
> All--
> 
> I've finally run to ground a gremlin that's been plaguing me for a couple
> years. If I upload a good script (something.mt) to my site, often it won't
> run. If I then go through the site manager and open something.mt and save it
> (without changing anything) it'll run. Why this is, I have no idea. I use
> GoLive to upload and manage my site, if that makes any difference. If you're
> having strange problems getting cgi to work right, this may help.
> 

Don't know if this is the case, but I suspect it is to do with permissions.
I have noted that there are differences between uploading folders to sites
using my ftp programme, and GoLive which appear to be to do with
permissions... haven't looked into it, but I suspect GoLive is doing
something "clever".