in reply to Can't open Perl output from within Nautilus

Have you inspected the contents of the output? As I see it, this is not the problem of your script, but rather of "Nautilus". I haven't used Nautilus ever, so couldn't help you to set up a "capable viewer", but Google tells us that you need gedit. If that fails, try: 

$ file /home/a/mail/yahoo/2512200317146

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to see what kind of file you're dealing with.

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Re: Re: file problem
by allolex (Curate) on Dec 25, 2003 at 16:18 UTC

    The code shows that the output is a mail file. :) I don't know if it was there when you posted. 

    print OUTFILE2 "From: ", $from, "\n";
print OUTFILE2 "To: ", $to, "\n";
print OUTFILE2 "Subject: ", $subject, "\n";
print OUTFILE2 "Message body: ", "\n", $body, "\n";

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