ok this is what i want to do the html pert is just to test that the script works its not of anyimportance but i will be parsing form data to the script, writing the input file tower.345 and calling up towerabc with the input file specified. i have both towerabc and a sample tower.345 files in the cgi-bin together with my perl script now this executes fine from the dos prompt but if i have a page with the action being this perl script and the submit button is clicked the html part is generated but the system() part does not run at all any suggestions 
      $arg="towerabc <tower.345";
      system($arg);
      print "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\n";
      print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";

      print "<HTML>\n";
      print "<HEAD>\n";
      print "<TITLE>Hello World</TITLE>\n";
      print "</HEAD>\n";
      print "<BODY>\n";
      print "<H4>Hello World</H4>\n";
      print "<P>\n";
      print "Your IP Address is $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR}.\n";
      print "<P>";
      print "<H5>Have a nice day</H5>\n";
      print "</BODY>\n";
      print "</HTML>\n";

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