In general yes you'll get an error. The error will be pretty much similar to the one if you had a read error on a local drive. You should try using  or die $!; if you want the reasons for the error to be output. At least then your 'die' is a little informative.

If you want the bells and whistles version you could drop the below into your code and call it with dying($!) instead. If you don't want the bells remove the 'sound' related lines I appended with ##>> and if you don't want the error message brutally forced to the front of all your other applications remove the 'win32Util' lines that I appended with ##%%

Happy travels! :-)

## put into the top of your main code

## Show fatal error dialog
sub dying {
    my ($error) = @_;
        use Tk;
        use Win32::Sound;  ##>>
        use Win32Util;  ##%%

    
    if (!$error) {
        $error = "(none given)";
    }
    my $text;
    $text .= "\n\nError:\n\n$error";
    my $box = new MainWindow(-title => "Error",
                -bg => 'yellow',
                -bd => 4,
                -relief => 'ridge');
    $box->overrideredirect(1);

    my $label = $box->Label(
                -textvariable=> \$text,
                -bg=> 'yellow',
                )->pack(-fill=>'both',
                    -padx => 40,
                    );
    Win32::Sound::Play('SystemExclamation');  ##>>
    my $ok = $box->Button(-text => "OK",
                -command => [     sub{print STDOUT "User selected 'OK'
+ on error message\n";
                        $box->destroy;
                        exit;
                        } ]
                )->pack(-padx => 20,
                    -pady => 20
                    );

    $box->withdraw;
    $box->Popup;
    Win32Util::keep_on_top($box, 1); ##%%
    MainLoop;
}
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