Well, it describes a little more about what you want to accomplish but it still isn't clear. You need to write a CGI program that accesses a file on an AIX machine. Will the CGI program run on the AIX machine or do you need to access the text file from a web application running 'outside' (whatever 'outside' means)?

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print map { my ($m)=1<<hex($_)&11?' ':'';
$m.=substr('AHJPacehklnorstu',hex($_),1) }
split //,'2fde0abe76c36c914586c';
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