At 23.51 -0400 1998.09.28, Mat Marcus wrote: >When I use the '-w' file test on a soft-locked file I get back 'true'. What >is the recommended way to test mac file writability? if (open(FILE, ">$file")) { # $file is writable :) } -- Chris Nandor mailto:pudge@pobox.com http://pudge.net/ %PGPKey = ('B76E72AD', [1024, '0824090B CE73CA10 1FF77F13 8180B6B6']) ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch