We have been using perl (ActiveState 5.8.6) on Windows 2000 PCs for a year
or so. Recently the PC techs replaced W 2000 with Windows XP Pro on one of my PCs. Most perl functionality still works, but one key operation in our main program now fails. The program prompts the user for the name of a data folder, and then prompts for the name of a target folder. It then creates an appropriately named subfolder of the target folder, and moves the data folder into the new subfolder. This has worked fine with Windows 2000 for the last 6 months. But this operation fails on the XP Pro machine: the program is able to create the subfolder of the target folder, but then everything stops because the program does not have permission to move the data folder into it. The subfolder created by the program seems fine because I can move the data folder into it by hand --- there are no permission problems for me, just for the program. And since the details probably matter: the subfolder of the target folder is created with the statement "mkdir($target_folder_name, 0777);", and the data folder is moved using the "rename" function. Any ideas on why "rename" now fails, and on how to fix the problem? I have already reinstalled perl, but that did not help. Thanks, Walt Poor
