unable to run excel from perl script and from html form

I am not quite sure whether I have post this thread in the right forum but here is because it is working with perl script so I am posting it here

What is wrong with this I want to run my excel through my perl script but it does not run after while the apache error log is as follow; (the apache version is 2.0.49)
timeout specified has expired: ap_content_length_filter: apr_bucket_read() failed, referer: http://localhost/test.html
Note The perl script runexcel.pl on dos works fine
Also eee.xls is running ok on dos (just type eee.xls and hit return)
Also note I get excel process running but the actual eee.xls it does not kike off.

what is that I am doing wrong ?
 

 

Test.html
<FORM METHOD=POST ACTION=cgi-bin/runprocess.pl>
Select a process To Run:</STRONG>
<SELECT Name="cookie">
<OPTION>run excel
</SELECT>
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Submit the process">
</FORM>
</BODY>

runprocess.pl
#!/perl/bin/perl
 read(STDIN,$buffer,$ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
@pairs=split(/&/,$buffer);
foreach $pair(@pairs){
    ($name,$value)=split(/=/,$pair);  
    $value=~tr/+/ /;                  
    $value=~s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C",hex($1))/eg;
    $FORM{$name}=$value;
}
print"Content-type: text/html\n\n";
if($value eq "Quarterly Employment Verification") {
print "$value Go back to main page\n";
`perl c:\\uu\\runexcel.pl`;
}
exit;

runexcel.pl
#!/perl/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
#` c:\\security_data\\eee.xls`;
system("c:\\security_data\\eee.xls");
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