From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6124 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Olaf Weber Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: texfont bad mode (755->0755) for mkdir, missing map line Date: 13 Nov 2001 18:46:39 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <87pu6m36o0.fsf@infovore.xs4all.nl> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20011113092509.03e11990@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035396670 7640 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:11:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:11:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "George N. White III" , ConTeXt mailing list Original-To: Hans Hagen In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20011113092509.03e11990@server-1> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6124 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6124 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 [M]ost likely other e-mail programs like Eudora are not designed to enable virus replication. -- http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office/2001/virus_alert.asp#Faqs