From: Olaf Weber <olaf@infovore.xs4all.nl>
Cc: "George N. White III" <WhiteG@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca>,
ConTeXt mailing list <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: texfont bad mode (755->0755) for mkdir, missing map line
Date: 13 Nov 2001 18:46:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pu6m36o0.fsf@infovore.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20011113092509.03e11990@server-1>
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).
--
Olaf Weber
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-13 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.GSO.4.40.0111122014370.12541-100000@emerald.bio.dfo.c a>
2001-11-13 8:26 ` Hans Hagen
2001-11-13 16:11 ` George N. White III
2001-11-13 17:46 ` Olaf Weber [this message]
2001-11-14 20:24 ` George N. White III
[not found] ` <Pine.GSO.4.40.0111141607490.23556-100000@emerald.bio.dfo.c a>
2001-11-15 8:35 ` Hans Hagen
2001-11-15 16:06 ` George N. White III
2001-11-13 0:28 George N. White III
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