[Zope-Perl] using CGI.pm under perl/zope

[Carl David]

We have a large number of perl programs which use CGI.pm to deliver web
pages under Apache uding cgi-bin. In migrating to Zope, I think I
discovered that the perl programs have to have the .py extension, have
to be stored in /Extensions and that's as far as it goes. The scripts
fail on the "use CGI;" line.
The archives suggest that "use" is forbidden. If that is so, is there a
workarround? Or are we stuck with abandoning CGI.pm?
Thanks for any help.
Carl David