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                  Subject: Re: PWS and Visual C++ Ver. 1.0
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Coert van der Merwe wrote:

> I am serving my pages from the Windows 95 Personal Web Server. I have a C
> program writing to the standard output, but it only executes and an error
> displays in the web browser, telling that the application did not return
> sufficient http headers.

[...code elided...]

> I compiled it as a Quickwin, and Windows executable file, but neither
> worked.
>
> Must the CGI program also be 32-bit? Must I compile it as a Dos program?
> What must I do to get it working?

I don't think there is a 32-bit requirement, but the CGI standard defines its
inputs and outputs in terms of console I/O.  Your code works fine when it is
compiled as a Win32 console application in MSVC++ 5.0, at least under IIS
2.0.