MKDIR error

[jray2003]

I am doing the following to create a directory on a Windows machine and eveytime I do, I creates it as "READ ONLY". I thought by putting the 0777 makes it writeable? What am I doing wrong here?

Thank you

Jim

    print "$DestFile does not exist - \n";
    mkdir $DestFile, 0777 or die "can't create $DestFile: $!";
    print "Created Directory\n";

 

[PaulTEG]

0777 are unix permissions.
What Windows OS?
--Paul

Spend an hour a week on CPAN, helps cure all known programming ailments ;-)

 

[jray2003]

Windows XP or will be running on any WINDOWS enviroment.

Thanks

 

[PaulTEG]

First off 0777 makes the directory readable, writeable and executable by any account on the unix box, not a good idea.

The process that creates the directory is the owner so less permissions is a much better idea, but that's for another day, it's not you issue here

try this

#!c:/Perl/bin
 mkdir "fred" or die $!;
 open FH, ">fred/fred.txt" or die $!;
 print FH "This worked!!!";
 close FH;

This will create a directory "fred", and a file "fred.txt" in that directory. I tried this on an XP box, and the readonly flag is "vague", it's neither checked, nor unchecked, but you can still create files in it

HTH
--Paul

Spend an hour a week on CPAN, helps cure all known programming ailments ;-)