Hi there , I am just learning how to use CGI and I have a small question. After I excute my script, an output file is being generated on my working directory. What I need to do is to be able to click at somthing from the HTML page and be able to open the file without browsing manually to it. So I did somthing like this at the bottom of my scripts : 
print "<A HREF=\"C:/Documents and Settings/mqa/scr/tcl/outputFile\">Cl
+ick Here To View Output</A>\n";

exit(0);

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Where the outputFile is the one get generated and I need to open. So I see the click and when I do click on it , nothing happens and no errors get generated. Do I need to use notepad or some other txt editor to open it ? if yes , How do I do that ? Please excuse me , I am just new to the whole HTML stuff . thanks

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