I'm having an issue simply opening a file and having perl output it on the screen when I run it in the command prompt.

Basically...if I put the file in the same folder as my .pl script, and run it...it works fine.

However, when I change the location to say something like this:
$loc = '\\Server\Shared Folder\Text.txt'; I can't get it to read it?
Here's my code...what am I doing wrong?:

print "ENTER ACCOUNT NUMBER: ";
$acct = <>;
print "\n>SEARCHING FOR DISPATCH INSTRUCTIONS ON ACCOUNT #: $acct  Ple
+ase Wait...";
$loc = "\\\\Server\\MappedNetworkDrive\\Folder\\$acct\\DispatchInstruc
+tions.txt";
print $loc;

#Get File Info
open(MYFILE, "$loc") or print "Didn't Open $loc";
 while (<MYFILE>) {
      sleep(5);
         chomp;
     print "$_\n";
 }
 close (MYFILE);

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In reply to Perl Program works on local machine, not over network? by jdlev

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