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... since you asked for comments .... Two key issues here:

Please use warnings and strict.
Always check the return value of system calls like open, so you don't get very odd things happening when/if they fail, e.g.:
```
open (TEMPOUT,">$outfile") or die "opening $outfile: $!\n";
[download]
```

Less importantly:

You could improve much of your HTML outputing code with heredocs:
```
print TEMPOUT <<"END";
<html><body>
...
END
[download]
```
You may wish to look at the $. line-counting variable documented in perlvar as an alternative to your counter variable.
You output malformed HTML. Please close all tags,use DOCTYPE at the beginning of your document, and quote attribute names not containing only alphanumeric characters, etc.

In reply to Re: Linux message log webifier by wog
in thread Linux message log webifier by hans_moleman

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