Re: texfont bad mode (755->0755) for mkdir, missing map line

[Olaf Weber <olaf@infovore.xs4all.nl>]

Hans Hagen writes:
> At 08:28 PM 11/12/2001 -0400, George N. White III wrote:

>> I've just started using texfont, version=2000.12.14, (from the Sept. 14th
>> beta), and encountered a couple minor problems:
>> 
>> 1) The line with mkdir:
>> 
>> { my $str = shift ; mkdir $str, 0755 unless -d $str }
>> 
>> originally used a mode off '755', which gives bad permissions
>> for the directories texfont creates.

> so the 0 really means something (i thought that perl would see it as a
> number and drop leading 0's)

Perl probably _is_ interpreting it as "just a number".  But the
leading zero means the number is in octal.  See perlnumber(1).

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