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it's backslashitis plain and simple.
system("copy ..\\text.html \\\\system1\\shareddir");

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should work. your "\t" is a tab "\\" interprolates to a single backslash and \s becomes a plain old s, if you do not escape your backslashes in a double quoted string. 
C:\>perl -e "print(qq|copy ..\text.html \\system1\shareddir|);"
copy .. ext.html \system1shareddir

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Re: Re: Copying files between two systems using cgi/perl
by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on May 13, 2002 at 18:36 UTC
    If all else fails use an absolute path.
    system("copy \\full\\path\\to\\text.html \\\\system1\\shareddir");

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