I'm just beginning to create some scripts in the POSIX shell, and I'm
also beginning to use the port of Perl.  So far, simple things regurgitated
from a CGI book seem to go fine, but I got stuck when I wanted to
call some CI commands using 'callci' from the perl script.  It griped with
a message similar to:

Can't call method callci without a package or object reference at...

So, I've got two questions:
1.  What is the appropriate syntax to call a shell routine from a perl script.
2.  Can anyone recommend a good source to learn PERL (I haven't really
looked through the man pages yet, I'd rather have a book I can curl up
with!).

Regards,
Michael L Gueterman
Easy Does It Technologies
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