Reading in a File

[Lola Lee]

I'm taking a Perl class and and I'm working on comprehending this script 
in one of the lessons.  This script has you count words in a file.  The 
line where one is supposed to read in the file being counted is like so:

while (defined($line = <>))
However, when I type this in: perl countwords.pl history.txt
Nothing happens.  This lesson that I'm working on is working from the 
premise that people are using a Windows Perl installation.  So it looks 
like I need to change the line above so that it will work in my setup. 
What would be a good way to change this line?

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