RE: File Creator under WIN32 environment

-----Original Message-----
From: Chas Owens [mailto:chas.owens@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 3:14 PM
To: Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Cc: beginners@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: File Creator under WIN32 environment

On 8/22/07, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <noreply@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO wrote:
What on earth is an "OR-ed combination"? Anybody who can
translate that
para in the POD to English ( or Swedish ;-) )?

Here is an explanation in Perl:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use constant READ_ONLY => 1;
use constant ARCHIVED => 2;
use constant HIDDEN => 4;

I believe the fourth flag is SYSTEM. Is there a value for that?

No, I don't like assumptions.

These are the flags manipulated by the DOS "attrib" utility, which also
works in a console on most versions of MS-Windows. "attrib +r file.ext"
will set the read-only attribute. They also show up at the bottom of the
properties dialogue, although SYSTEM is missing there. Yes, they are
left over from MS-DOS, but still have some usefulness.

Bob McConnell
.

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