Problem with relative path

[Marek Matis]

Hi,
I have EmbPerl2.0r3, Apache2, mod_perl2 1.99 (Debian Sarge)

/foo/index.epl:
[-
  open F, "/foo/example_file.txt";   # <-- THIS WORKING
  open F, "./example_file.txt";  # <-- THIS NOT WORKING, WHY ?
-]

Thanks
Marek