Thank you for your quick reply.

I am not a perl programmer, but I believe the sub savefile in the code provided should be the actual code that saves the file with various switches that create backups, etc. The sub fileisreadonly is the only place I saw any reference to the file mode and when running the app I get no prompt to save as read only. The application is supposed to open a file for editing and has tools for text checking ans save the file with a program generated .bin file, the function of which is to save page number locations and other structural parts of the text. The .bin file is saved with the correct permissions while the text file is not.

From command line: 

wayne@localhost ~]$ umask
0002

[download]

From command line: 

[wayne@localhost ~]$ printf "%04o\n", umask;
bash: printf: umask: invalid number
0000

[download]

Regards, Wayne

In reply to Re^2: File permissions problem (updated) by wdhammond
in thread File permissions problem by wdhammond

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