Hi Charles, My system have perl 5.001, and somehow when i run your code i get error.

webhome: 19% write.cgi
Global symbol "name" requires explicit package name at write.cgi line 
+10.
Global symbol "name" requires explicit package name at write.cgi line 
+11.
No comma allowed after filehandle at write.cgi line 28.
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Here are the code i used:

#!/usr/bin/perl -T
     use strict;
    #      use warnings;
    #     use diagnostics;
         use CGI qw/:standard center/;

         opendir DIR, "./Data" or die "Couldn't open directory ./Data:
+ $!";
             my @files;
             while ( my $name = readdir DIR ) {
                 next if $name !~ /^\d*.html/;
                 push(@files, $name);
             }
         closedir DIR or die "Couldn't close directory './Data': $!";

         my $next_file = 'testing.html';
         open OUT, ">Data/$next_file" or die "Cannot open 'Data/$next_
+file': $!";
         
             print OUT
                 start_html( -title      => param('title'),
                             -bgcolor    => '#FFFFFF'),
                     center( h1( param('heading') ) ), br,
                     p( param('body') ),
                 end_html;
         close OUT or die "Cannot close 'Data/$next_file': $!";

         push @files, $next_file;

         print header, start_html( -title => 'File Listing');
         print a({ -href => "Data/$_" }, $_ ), br for @files;
         print end_html;
 exit;
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