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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 22:22:00 -0500 (EST)
From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: PERL Question
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On Sat, 27 Jan 1996, Blair Schmittel wrote:

> system("mkdir $where");

	why not use perl's own mkdir(directory name, permissions)
function, faster than executing the system binary and you can check the
return code more easily.

mkdir($where, 755) || die "can't make directory $where";

jmb

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