Phoenix.pm: Code problem

[David Sinck]

\_ 
\_     open ( IN_FILE, $in_file ) || die ........
\_     open ( OUT_FILE, "> $out_file" ) || die .......
\_     while ( <IN_FILE> )
\_         {
\_         print OUT_FILE $_ ;
\_         $size = `wc -w $out_file | tr -s " " | cut -f1 -d " "` ;
\_         print "Unix word count = $size\n" ;
\_         }
\_     close ....
\_     close ....

as a last hope, is $out_file a relative path'd file or is it absolute
from the root?

David