Dear McDarren,
So sorry to have to comeback to you again McDarren. I'll try not to trouble you again after this....

I've followed your suggestion. Now I have modified my prn_to_file.pl to take two arguments. It looks like this: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
my  $text = $ARGV[0];     
my  $OUTFILE_file_name = $ARGV[1];      # output file name

open ( OUTFILE, '>', $OUTFILE_file_name ) 
    or die "$0 : failed to open output file $OUTFILE_file_name : $!\n"
+;

print OUTFILE "THIS IS YOUR INPUT TEXT: $text\n";


close ( OUTFILE );          # close output file

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And the system call is as follows: 
    my @args = (   # This is line 54
        '/home/myname/public_html/MyTest/prn_to_file.pl', $param1,
        '/home/myname/public_html/MyTest/results/output.txt'
    );

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

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But when I run it. It gives this as output in the browser: 
Testing System/Exec function with CGI
This text _should_ be printed to the file : 

foo bar

Software error:

Code does not work Bad file descriptor at /home/myname/public_html/MyT
+est/cgi-bin/test.cgi line 54.

For help, please send mail to the webmaster (webmaster@cheers.com), gi
+ving this error message and the time and date of the error.

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---
neversaint and everlastingly indebted.......

In reply to Re^6: 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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