Re: modifing existing Excel cells using perl in Unix possible?

On the AIX OSes that I use, a simple `cp file1 file2` will not keep the
file permissions, however, I need to use `cp -p file1 file2` to keep the
permissions.

Oh, really? What sort of AIX are you using to say that? Consider:

$ uname -M
IBM,9111-520
$ oslevel -r
5300-03
$ umask
022
$ ls >test.txt
$ ls -l test.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 stuv stuv 28274 May 11 10:53 test.txt
$ chmod 755 test.txt
$ ls -l test.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 stuv stuv 28274 May 11 10:53 test.txt
cp test.txt test2.txt
$ cp test.txt test2.txt
$ ls -l test2.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 stuv stuv 28274 May 11 10:56 test2.txt

Hmmm. Looks like my AIX 5.3 system managed to preserve the permission
bits with a simple 'cp' command.

The problem with File::Copy is that the syscopy routine is the same as
the copy routine for UNIX machines. Abagail is correct - that is drain
bamaged.

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