that's close. The filehandle is a reference to the file, so instead of having the path to the file, it needs to be a keyword or decriptive word. Then inside the quotes you need to put the filename (with path).

Here's what it should look like:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI;

  # start new cgi process
my $main=new CGI;
  # print html headers
print $main->header;
  # print html tags and add title
print $main->start_html ("Printer Status");

  # open /usr/lsys/printstatus/printstatus.out under filehandle LOGFIL
+E
open(LOGFILE," /usr/lsys/printstatus/printstatus.out");
  # while there is data in LOGFILE
while(<LOGFILE>) {
    # remove newlines (\n) from input
    chomp;
    # if the imput is not the divider line
    if (! ($_=~/----------------------------/)) {
        # put the contents of the current line into the array @status
        # we are spliting on the space so that every word seperated by
        # a space becomes a new element in the array
        my @status = split(/ /, $_);
        # if the first element of @status does not equal 'name' (the t
+itle header
        if (($status[0] eq "name") && ($status[1] eq "display")) {
          # print the start of the table
            print "<center><table width=250 border=1><tr align=center>
+\n";
          # for each element in @status
            for (@status) {
            # print a new table cell
                print "<td><b>$_</b></td>\n";
            }
          # close the table row
            print "</tr>\n";
        }
    }
}
  # close the table
print "</table>\n";
  # close LOGFILE
close (LOGFILE);
exit;
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if you are curious about some of the commands/functions that are used, type perlfunc:NameOfFunction in the super search.
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