Thanks for the answers. Ok, let me clarify a few things:

1.- The file is local on my MAC.
2.- No other prog,user or X has the file opened.
3.- the line I had before was a:
(!-e $templateLocation || !open($handle, $templateLocation)) following the OR convention... but I removed that for the $isOpen (troubleshooting) hence the bad designed code.
4.- Thanks for the Template library... I thought I looked for one pretty hard, but It seems that I didn't...
5.- The file is simple HTML plain text to 0 per line or no \n just a basic one.

Still getting the error after a few modifications. Actually this is really strange... because it looks like it opens the file, but when is reading the lines is when times out...

In reply to Re^3: Error reading line from file: Operation timed out by robertobouza
in thread Error reading line from file: Operation timed out by robertobouza

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