I recently set me up the server with a local provider running their digs on a Windows 2000 system and I find I can't open files in Perl.... i.e. the following code... 
open (FILE, "quotes.txt") || 
die "Could not open file! $!";
@LINES = <FILE>;
close (FILE);

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...dies with "Could not open file! No such file or directory at blah blah blah" even though the file does certainly exist. I've tried opening different files in different directories but nothing will go. My guess is it's because of file permissions, but because I'm doing this remotely over FTP, I can't fuss with the file permissions once they're on their server. FTPing a CHMOD doesn't do anything in this case, n'est pas? Well, whether it is supposed to or not, it's not working. Could it be something other than permissions? Any idears or suggestions, wise ones? I thought I would ask here before shouting and waving my fists at the admins of the server just in case I'm missing something. Danke. X

In reply to Files on a Win2000 server by XeneX

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