Hardcoding the volume name and complete path is not an option as I want this to be 
more portable to other machines.  Seams like I already tried to put a : at the 
beginning of the pathname, (it didn't work.)

>At 7:37 AM -0600 2/2/01, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I am writing a CGI that grabs a data stream from a form and writes 
>>it to a file.  I want it to write it to a seperate file every time 
>>it executes so I decided to just use the time to be the filename.
>>
>>I am trying to put all of these files into a folder called tchorders
>>
>>$ofile="tchorders:".time();
>>open (OUT, ">>$ofile") || die "SERVER ERROR!";
>>
>>What is wrong with this peice of code.  I am stumped?  I get "SEVER ERROR"
>>instead of a file creation.  The folling works ok, but doe not put it into the
>>seperat directory.
>>
>>$ofile=time();
>>open (OUT, ">>$ofile") || die "SERVER ERROR!";
>
>One of your volumes is named "tchorders"?  If you're trying to put 
>files into a folder named "tchorders" in the current folder, you need
>
>$ofile=":tchorders:".time();
>
>Or perhaps you need the full path to the folder.
>-- 
>--
>Paul Schinder
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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