On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 03:49:05PM -0400, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote: > however, I am still curious about open's ability to do this rather than > requiring a separate function, so can it?
The open function can't accomplish what you want. The sysopen function, or IO::File's open, can nearly accomplish what you want. The latter two can take a permissions argument (see perldoc -f sysopen, perldoc IO::File). However, the permissions are affected by the umask (perldoc -f umask, man umask), which is why you're having problems now; the umask was changed, affecting the default permissions of your file. Michael -- Administrator www.shoebox.net Programmer, System Administrator www.gallanttech.com -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
