in cgi program if i want to display pdf files from some other directory ex /view/dvsview/vobs/ps/projects/xx.pdf which is not ubder htdocs directory how to display that file in web it always looks for htdocs directory when i am running that program can u please help me my program looks like this can u please send a mail to jyothil@yahoo.com 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
print "<html>";
print "<head>";
print "<title>xx </title>";
print "<body bgcolor=lightblue>";

print qq[
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE= javascript>
function back()
{
    history.go(-1);
}
</SCRIPT>];
$ct=$ENV{"CONTENT_TYPE"};
$cl=$ENV{"CONTENT_LENGTH"};
$xy="/view/dvsview/vobs/ps/projects/linkair/docs/internal/servdefns/ip
+relaysd";
#$xy1="/www/apache-1.3.19/cgi-bin/ps";
$op=opendir(DIR,$xy);
#print "reurn opendir = $op";
@files=readdir(DIR);

        print qq[<p><a href="../../t1/lr_sd.pdf">files</a></p>
    ];
foreach $files(@files)
{
    if($files =~/pdf$/)
    {$pq=$xy.'/'.$files;
     print qq
        [
        <center>
        <table border="1" width=10%>
        <tr><td>
        <p><a href="$pq">$files</a></p>
        </td></tr>
        </table>
        </center>
        ];
             
    }
}
closedir(DIR);
&successsubmit("Doc successfully displayed!!","navy");


sub successsubmit
{
   my($printstr,$color) = @_;
   print "<form><center>";
   print "<br><br><br><br>";
   print "<font color=$color font size=6>";
   print "<b>$printstr</b>";
   print "</font>";
   print "<br><br><br>";
   print "<font size=3>";
   print "<input type=\"button\" value=\"BACK\"
onClick=\"back()\">";
   print "</font></center>";
   print "</form>";
}

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Edit kudra, 2001-10-05 Added code tags

In reply to pdf file display by jyothi

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