I am using activestate perl 5.8. All i want to do is have the perl script change a 0 to 1. Ive tried doing this directly from perl, Fail; I had perl run a bat file that would delete the old file and copy the new one on top, Fail; I have a VB program that changes it to a 1 now and it works by itself but when i tried accessing it through the script,Fail.

#!C:\perl\bin\perl.exe

use CGI qw(:standard -debug);
use strict;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

#make variables
my $subbutton;

#suck in stuff from form
$subbutton = param('B1');

#Call uptdate text file;
system ("status.exe");


The executable is in the cgi-bin and so is the text file.