Hi Folks,
I'm tying my luck w/this posting again...removed the "Slightly OT" prepended earlier in hopes of getting a taker. After seeing Kerry's permissions-related postings of earlier today, thought this might be in a similar vein...perhaps the experts might shine a little light this way.
Here's the situation:
Mac OS 10.2.8/Director MX (9.0)
Everything works fine on the development machine.
I have a little Perl executable that's getting launched from a projector. I'm using the DirectOS Xtra (from DirectXtras) 'dosLaunchApp()' function to do it. After being launched from the projector, the Perl executable does some stuff, creates and writes a text file and then quits/returns.
When I try to install/move to a new computer, however:
The Perl app gets launched fine from the projector but then chokes because it doesn't want to create and write the text file.
I'm not a Unix jockey - but my first guess was that this was a permissions or ownership problem. I used chmod to give all groups "execute" permissions, tried changing the owner...but to no avail.
Don't know if this matters, but the Perl executable is a "Classic" app.
Any ideas (even casual suggestions) as what could be going wrong i.e. why won't the Perl executable create/write a file except on the (development) machine on which it was created?
TIA,
Gilles
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