In addition to the good things Corion mentioned about always checking for errors when you make system calls and explicitly specifying "<" when opening files (even when you don't have to), I noticed a couple of other things.

Because $line is a scalar variable, you are reading the file in line by line. Thus the first line is read in at the first instance of
$line=<FILE>

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then the second line, and subsequent lines, are read in during the while() loop. With your code, the first line won't be printed. That may or may not be what you wanted.

Finally, you'll probably need a carriage return and/or a line feed, so your print line should probably read something like 
print "$line\n\r";

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Again, this may or may not be what you want, but my experience with NT tells me the addition of a CR and/or LF often makes a difference.

In reply to Re: Opening files in NT by doran
in thread Opening files in NT by Anonymous Monk

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