On Aug 22, 2:11 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gunnar Hjalmarsson) wrote:
> Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO wrote:
>
> >    Any insights would be greatly appreciated on getting owner of a
> > file under Win32.
>
> There is a Win32::File module with a GetAttributes() function. Sounds
> promising, doesn't it?
>
> However, reading the docs for that module makes me feel stupid:
>
> <quote>
> GetAttributes(filename, returnedAttributes)
>            Gets the attributes of a file or directory. returnedAttributes
>            will be set to the OR-ed combination of the filename
>            attributes.
> </quote>
>
> What on earth is an "OR-ed combination"? Anybody who can translate that
> para in the POD to English ( or Swedish ;-) )?

It's something along the lines of:

$READONLY = 1;
$LOCKED = 2;
$HIDDEN = 4;
#etc

$attr = $READONLY | $HIDDEN;

Paul Lalli


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