McDarren,
Following your advice, I have this snippet. 

    my @args = ('perl',
    '/home/myname/public_html/somedir/cgi-bin/prn_to_file.pl',$param1,
    ,'>','/home/myname/public_html/somedir/results/output.txt');

    system(@args) == 0 or die "Code does not work $!";

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While it does prints/shows this text in the browser (which is not what I really want): 
THIS IS YOUR INPUT TEXT: foo bar

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But still, no file is created. Did I still miss anything?

Regards,
Edward

In reply to Re^4: Failed System/Exec Call under Right Permission with CGI by neversaint
in thread Failed System/Exec Call under Right Permission with CGI by neversaint

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