in reply to Printing contents of file on a HTML page.

Basically you haven't specified that the contents of the file is to be printer anywhere, only the name of the file - in this section of code 

<body>
Okay this prints out.<br>
$myfile



</body>
</html>

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You're not specifying that the contents of file $myfile be printed, but rather the value of variable $myfile which you've set to "/perl/bin/bas.txt";

What you need is something that will print out the HTML header info - I'd suggest using the CGI module rather than hand coding, and then a loop to read through the file printing out the contents.

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