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Re: [patch] Re: WML wml::std::lang questions
- From: Tobias Oetiker <nospam@thanx>
- Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 16:16:15 +0100 (MET)
Today you sent me mail regarding Re: [patch] Re: WML wml::std::lang questions:
*> On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Tobias Oetiker wrote:
*>
*> > why are you using an external command when there is
*> > a native chmod already in perl ? try perldoc -f chmod ?
*>
*> As far as i know, the perl builtin chmod allows only numeric modes,
*> not symbolic ones like ``go-w''
sure ... but I guess you would want to use absolute mods anyway ... what is
the use of relative in this situation ? Except for the sake of backward
compatibility with existing scripts ... however, implementing this in perl
should not be very difficult either ...
guess I am being of ^'do everything possible in perl-ish ... sorry
tobi
*>
*> Denis
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