Ahh, but here is the real problem: certain customers forbid us from changing the platform load. Has anyone else run into this? It's very common with many of the projects that I have worked on in the Detroit area.

Security and system administration are very, very tight at the auto companies. Everything must be served, and if I want to use cygwin, I'd have to jump through hoops to serve it along with the desired version of perl. Btw, perl is frowned upon quite seriously at the autos. The patent response from certain admins is: "Who's going to support it? If it breaks, who do I call, the Internet? Ha. Ha. Ha."

Geez, Louise.

So, for now, the answer is that we keep one server at the back end of our system that runs all of our perl scripts. This allows us to use perl without running into too many complaints. But the server could easily change from *nix to win32 in a year. So my code needs to be able to run if such a change occurs.

Thanks to everyone for the valuable input.

-- ccarden

In reply to Re: Re: "mkdir -p" equivalent? by ccarden
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