I am using Apache2 on a Netware 6.5 server. At first, I had problems in that my server would reboot when I executed the following command: 
open (FILE, "243q1_13.txt") || die "Cannot open $file: $!";

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After I removed the (), the server no longer reboots, but it never executes the WHILE statement because the print statement, "Start of while loop", I inserted to see if the loop is accessed never gets printed. I do not get the "error" message as if the file could not be found or opened, and the statement, "$file has been opened" does get printed correctly.

I also deleted the file to be accessed from the directory and the script did not give me an error message so it appears that the script is ignoring the open statement.

This script ran fine on a Netware 5.1 server running Novell Enterprise Server, but I've had a lot of trouble running it on Apache2. Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks for your help. 

print "<H2>Hello $fullname!</H2><P>";
print start_form (-name=>'makequiz', -method=>'POST', -action=>"http:/
+/ist221.nsm.tridenttech.edu/perl/gradequiz.cgi");

open FILE, "243q1_13.txt" || die "Cannot open $file: $!";

print "$file has been opened<p>";

while (<FILE>) {        # ** READS EACH LINE OF TEXT FROM FILE
print "Start of while loop<p>";

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