Thanks for the help guys. I got this thing working. I will post my modified code. Since I am new, I will look around and see, if I can post the source so someone else can benefit. Thanks! 

# Variables
$output = "/home/web/path/to/foo/foo.htm";
$jscriptdir = "/home/web/foo/javascript/";
$javadir = "/home/web/foo/servlet/";
$cgidir = "/home/web/cgi-bin/";

# Open the output file
open(NEW,">$output") or die "Can't Open $output: $!";
print NEW "<html><head><title>Comment Extractor</title></head>\n";
print NEW "<body>\n";
print NEW "<h1>Comment Extractor</h1>\n";
print NEW "<hr>\n";

# Let's find files. Call jsfind for the dirty work
find (\&jsfind, $jscriptdir);

print NEW "</body></html>\n";
close NEW;
exit;

sub jsfind {
    # get all file names that have last 2 characters "js"
    if($File::Find::name=~/\.js$/)
    {
        # ignore js files in those stupid Frontpage _vti* directories
        if ($File::Find::name=~/\_vti/) {} else 
        {
                # get name of script file and print it in red
            $script_title = $_;
            print NEW "<b><font style=\"color:red; size:16px; text-tra
+nsform: uppercase\">" . $script_title . "</font></b>";
            # placeholder for file
                # start opening files to read
                open(FILE, $File::Find::name) or die "could not open f
+ile - $_ - : $!";
                # iterate thru files to find match //**
                    while (<FILE>)
                {
                    if ($_ =~ /\*\*/) {
                        # print files to $output
                        print NEW substr($_,4) . "<br>";
                    }
                }
                close FILE;
        }
    } else {
    
    return;
        
    }
    
}

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