copy ("$html_dir/$figfile", "$html_dir/$figfile.tmp") or die "Can not make temporary copy of file: $1";
You have no idea how much I appreciate your help. I
made the suggested changes as you can see above, and
get this error:

Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or
string at ./engine_figurelinks.pl line 53 (#1)
(W uninitialized) An undefined value was used as if it
was a mistake. To suppress this warning assign a
defined value to your variables.

To help you figure out what was undefined, perl tells
you what operation you used the dedefined value in.
Note, however, that perl optimizes your progrm and the
operation displayed in the warning may not necessarily
appear literally in your program. For example, "that
$foo" is usually optimized into "that" . $foo, and the
warning will refer to the concatenation (.) operator,
even though there is no . in your program.

Uncaught exception from user code:
HTML files do not exist: at ./engine_figurelinks.pl line 53

In reply to Re^2: Making tmp copies of files by xdbd063
in thread Making tmp copies of files by xdbd063

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