It turns out there were illegal characters in the new file name. Before I append the date onto the file name, I need to clean it up a bit. Thanks for the help, everyone. Kathy
"Cintron, Jose J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you can write to the file make sure that it's not in use by some other process. +------------------------------------------ | José J. Cintrón +------------------------------------------ > -----Original Message----- > From: Katherine Richmond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 10:14 > To: Cintron, Jose J.; "kathyjjja"; [email protected] > Subject: RE: Need permissions to rename file on Windows XP > > Thank you for replying. It is a log file that I can write to > from both Perl and VB.NET. But for some reason, I am not able > to rename it. My plan is to move it to a log archive > directory (which works) and then rename it by adding the date > to the name. > > Thanks, > Kathy > > > --- "Cintron, Jose J." wrote: > Do you have permissions to modify this file. If you don't > there's not much you can do. > > > +------------------------------------------ > | Jos$E9 J. Cintr$F3n > +------------------------------------------ > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: kathyjjja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 10:03 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Need permissions to rename file on Windows XP > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I am trying to rename a file like this: > > > > rename($myFile, $newName); > > > > The program dies there and says "Permission Denied." > > > > What can I do in order to rename that file? > > > > Thanks, > > Kathy > > > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click.
