Permissions on a SCO Unix exported file

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Thu Oct 18 10:41:03 PDT 2007


Quoting Brian K. White (Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:16:04 -0400):

>  >>           What is the best way to change permissions
>>> on an exported
>>> spreadsheet?  I am trying to put the output
>>> spreadsheet into the
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> Can't you set the umask before you go into *report or
>> *clerk as the case may be?  That would be easiest, I
>> think.  There is also a PFUMASK I believe.
>
> Great, you're telling me fp now honors umask after all that crap I just
> said?

Well, given that you are getting a system error on the export (your
message didn't say what the system error was), I have to assume that
the problem is that filePro didn't have permission to create the file
in the first place.

> /me tests again...
>
> sigh :)

Are you saying PFUMASK solved the problem?  In that case, what was the
original problem?

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