Thank you for your help.

I agree with what you said but I found that on 2 of my own MS Windows web servers, where I had recently reinstalled the operating system and then installed ActiveState Perl 5.8, I noticed that although Fcntl has been installed and I can see the module in the lib folder, the @INC variable was not set up properly for IIS.

I realize this is easy to fix but it made me realize that even though Fcntl may be installed on many or all of my customers' web servers, it is likely that for some Fcntl will not be available through the web server without making a configuration change. The problem is many of my customers do not have the ability to change the configuration of their web servers. Many of them can only copy files. To accommodate these folks, it's important to be able to make Fcntl optional.

Thanks again.

Richard

In reply to Re^2: Can I include O_CREAT, O_EXCEL and O_WRONLY in my script without always requiring Fcntl? by rzward
in thread Can I include O_CREAT, O_EXCEL and O_WRONLY in my script without always requiring Fcntl? by rzward

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