$ cat test1.pl 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

open( FILE, "filetoread.something" ) or die "can't open filetoread.something:$!\n";
while ( <FILE> ) { 
        print;
}
close(FILE);


$ cat filetoread.something 
blah blah blah
blah blah blah
blah blah blah
blah blah blah
blah blah blah
blah blah blah


$ ./test1.pl 
blah blah blah
blah blah blah
blah blah blah
blah blah blah
blah blah blah
blah blah blah

$ perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.0 built for cygwin-multi-64int