in reply to Failed file existance check

I don't think you have a directory named this.. 
my $save_dir = ">/home/dir/";

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Now I assume that you're using that to open a file for output, but it's not going to pass a file test.

Rich

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Re: Re: Failed file existance check
by PerlJam (Sexton) on Apr 30, 2001 at 02:25 UTC
    Correct, that was the prob. I carelessly overlooked it when doing my test. Thanks a bunch.
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