Permissions on a SCO Unix exported file

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
To: "Brian K. White" <brian at aljex.com>
Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: Permissions on a SCO Unix exported file


> 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?

I don't have a problem, I always pre-create such files, via system() or via 
parent process, with whatever perms I need, unless I know fp (or root) is 
the only thing that will ever need to access and delete it.

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