This is a wierd one. My boss wants "speedometer"-like counters on all of our current web pages (Ack!), so I whipped a this script really quick:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use CGI qw/:standard/;

# "global" variable declaration
###############################
my $countfile = './_countfile';
my $q = CGI->new;
my $font = {face => 'Arial', size => 2};

open (OCOUNT, "<$countfile") || die "open died: $!";
my $count = <OCOUNT>;
close (OCOUNT);

open (NCOUNT, ">$countfile") || die "open died: $!";
my $ncount = ++$count;
print NCOUNT $ncount;
close (NCOUNT);

my @nums = split //, $ncount;
print $q->header;
print $q->table({-border => 0, -cellpadding => 0, -cellspacing => 0},
        Tr(
            map { td( img {-src => "count${_}.jpg"} )  } @nums,
        )
        );

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I have Apache 1.3.3 running locally on my Win32 box, and when tested, this worked fine (from command-line, and web via localhost). So I go and upload this to our server (Cobalt RaQ2 with Cobalt-Redhat and Cobalt-Apache) and run it from the web. It prints a blank page!! WTF! So I telnet in, and run it from the the command-line, and it prints the header and table tags perfectly! At this point I'm about to shoot someone. Can somebody tell me what's going on?? Is it uncompatible code? AHHH!!! It's not giving any errors at all.

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