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Re: Perl creates html-file, view from cmd.exe => Access is denied


On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Lennart Borgman wrote:

> Dave Korn wrote:
> >   Or you can chmod +x it.  That's longer lasting! ;-)

For Dave: "achieve the same effect"..."no matter what the permissions are"
-- you can't, for example, launch a .html file from a bash shell at all.
"cygstart" will always work.

> >   Plus it could even be done as part of the perl script, and then the
> > problem would just /never/ arise again and wouldn't need to remember
> > to use 'start' or 'cygstart' to launch it.
>
> Thanks Dave, but what would "chmod +x" be in perl? Is there an easy way
> to do it? (Hope this is not too much OT, it is clearly useful here.)

"perldoc -f chmod".
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