Jeremy Lee writes: |>use Fcntl; |>sysopen F, "Macintosh HD:Desktop Folder:f1", O_RDWR | O_CREAT, 0666 or |> die "can't sysopen: $!\n"; |What are | O_RDWR | O_CREAT They symbolically specify the mode the file is to be opened in. In this case, O_RDWR means to open the file for reading and writing, and O_CREAT says to create the file if it doesn't exist. Brian ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch