Bill,

Thank you. I cannot tell you how much joy I experienced when 
I followed your tip and it worked. Thanks again.


Bill Platt  -  Internet Musketeers, Inc.  
Deputy Director for Plans, Operations, Marketing and Systems
  http://GhostArticles.com      (Promotional Article Creation)

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$Bill Luebkert wrote:
> 
> Bill Platt wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am a perl newbie. I have written maybe a half dozen scripts
> > and I have spent some time seriously going through tutorials
> > and other people's scripts to learn my way. With the current
> > problem I am facing, I have spent most of the last two days
> > online digging through perl archives on the web searching
> > for a solution. I have even taken to looking at a lot of the
> > cgi on my own server looking for clues. I am running Redhat
> > Linux on an apache server with Perl 5.
> >
> > I want to be able to save a new static file from a cgi script
> > on command.
> >
> > I know it is possible. I have seen people do it.
> >
> > As an example, I am trying to duplicate the article archiving
> > feature on a site called makingprofit.com . I need this so
> > that my team can fill out a form and place our archive files
> > on our server. Right now, I am having to build all archives
> > by hand.
> >
> > At MakingProfit.com, they have a form for articles that you
> > fill in and submit to the site. At the same time as the
> > information is sent to the server, the server will tell you
> > that you can view the page at its new permanent address at,
> > for example:
> >
> > makingprofit.com/articles/07262001-18.html
> >
> > OR at:
> >
> > makingprofit.com/articles/07262001-18.txt
> >
> > So, I want to be able to take the information from the
> > form and make it into a html file and a text file.
> >
> > I need to find the way to take that information from the
> > form, and make a new file called 07262001-18.html and put
> > it in a directory on our server.
> >
> > Could someone show me how to do it? I know how to overwrite
> > or append an existing file, I just do not know how to make
> > a new one.
> 
> Same way you overwrite a file.  If it doesn't exist - it will be created.
> 
>         open OUT, ">$die/$file" or die ...
> 
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