--- HTML/Template.pm.orig	Fri Jul 30 19:07:52 2004
+++ HTML/Template.pm	Fri Jul 30 19:17:29 2004
@@ -1571,7 +1571,7 @@
   return(undef) if ($options->{blind_cache});
 
   # make sure it still exists in the filesystem 
-  (-r $filepath) or Carp::confess("HTML::Template : template file $filepath does not exist or is unreadable.");
+  (-e $filepath) or Carp::confess("HTML::Template : template file $filepath does not exist or is unreadable.");
   
   # get the modification time
   return (stat(_))[9];