Win32API::File v0.08 -- Low-level access to Win32 API calls for files. New to v0.08: GetHandleInformation SetHandleInformation HANDLE_FLAG_INHERIT HANDLE_FLAG_PROTECT_FROM_CLOSE fileConstant fileLastError Low-level and full-power access to the following routines are provided: CloseHandle CopyFile CreateFile DefineDosDevice DeleteFile DeviceIoControl GetDriveType GetFileType GetHandleInformation GetLogicalDrives GetLogicalDriveStrings GetVolumeInformation IsRecognizedPartition IsContainerPartition MoveFile MoveFileEx QueryDosDevice ReadFile SetFilePointer SetErrorMode SetHandleInformation WriteFile Plus the Unicode versions: CopyFileW CreateFileW DefineDosDeviceW DeleteFileW GetDriveTypeW GetLogicalDriveStringsW GetVolumeInformationW MoveFileW MoveFileExW QueryDosDeviceW Full conversion between Win32-native file handles and Perl file handles is also supported. Access to the following C run-time library routines [or at least the Perl run-time library wrappers for them] is provided: _get_osfhandle or win32_get_osfhandle as FdGetOsFHandle _open_osfhandle or win32_open_osfhandle as OsFHandleOpenFd The following Perl-friendly wrappers and helper functions are also provided: OsFHandleOpen GetOsFHandle attrLetsToBits createFile fileConstant fileLastError getLogicalDrives Plus the following constants: CREATE_ALWAYS CREATE_NEW FILE_BEGIN FILE_CURRENT FILE_END INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE OPEN_ALWAYS OPEN_EXISTING TRUNCATE_EXISTING DDD_EXACT_MATCH_ON_REMOVE DDD_RAW_TARGET_PATH DDD_REMOVE_DEFINITION DRIVE_UNKNOWN DRIVE_NO_ROOT_DIR DRIVE_REMOVABLE DRIVE_FIXED DRIVE_REMOTE DRIVE_CDROM DRIVE_RAMDISK FILE_READ_DATA FILE_LIST_DIRECTORY FILE_WRITE_DATA FILE_ADD_FILE FILE_APPEND_DATA FILE_ADD_SUBDIRECTORY FILE_CREATE_PIPE_INSTANCE FILE_READ_EA FILE_WRITE_EA FILE_EXECUTE FILE_TRAVERSE FILE_DELETE_CHILD FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES FILE_ALL_ACCESS FILE_GENERIC_READ FILE_GENERIC_WRITE FILE_GENERIC_EXECUTE FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ARCHIVE FILE_ATTRIBUTE_COMPRESSED FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL FILE_ATTRIBUTE_OFFLINE FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY FILE_ATTRIBUTE_SYSTEM FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED FILE_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS FILE_FLAG_RANDOM_ACCESS FILE_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL_SCAN FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH FILE_SHARE_DELETE FILE_SHARE_READ FILE_SHARE_WRITE FILE_TYPE_CHAR FILE_TYPE_DISK FILE_TYPE_PIPE FILE_TYPE_UNKNOWN FS_CASE_IS_PRESERVED FS_CASE_SENSITIVE FS_UNICODE_STORED_ON_DISK FS_PERSISTENT_ACLS FS_FILE_COMPRESSION FS_VOL_IS_COMPRESSED HANDLE_FLAG_INHERIT HANDLE_FLAG_PROTECT_FROM_CLOSE IOCTL_STORAGE_CHECK_VERIFY IOCTL_STORAGE_MEDIA_REMOVAL IOCTL_STORAGE_EJECT_MEDIA IOCTL_STORAGE_LOAD_MEDIA IOCTL_STORAGE_RESERVE IOCTL_STORAGE_RELEASE IOCTL_STORAGE_FIND_NEW_DEVICES IOCTL_STORAGE_GET_MEDIA_TYPES IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_GEOMETRY IOCTL_DISK_GET_PARTITION_INFO IOCTL_DISK_SET_PARTITION_INFO IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_LAYOUT IOCTL_DISK_SET_DRIVE_LAYOUT IOCTL_DISK_VERIFY IOCTL_DISK_FORMAT_TRACKS IOCTL_DISK_REASSIGN_BLOCKS IOCTL_DISK_PERFORMANCE IOCTL_DISK_IS_WRITABLE IOCTL_DISK_LOGGING IOCTL_DISK_FORMAT_TRACKS_EX IOCTL_DISK_HISTOGRAM_STRUCTURE IOCTL_DISK_HISTOGRAM_DATA IOCTL_DISK_HISTOGRAM_RESET IOCTL_DISK_REQUEST_STRUCTURE IOCTL_DISK_REQUEST_DATA GENERIC_ALL GENERIC_EXECUTE GENERIC_READ GENERIC_WRITE Unknown F5_1Pt2_512 F3_1Pt44_512 F3_2Pt88_512 F3_20Pt8_512 F3_720_512 F5_360_512 F5_320_512 F5_320_1024 F5_180_512 F5_160_512 RemovableMedia FixedMedia F3_120M_512 MOVEFILE_COPY_ALLOWED MOVEFILE_DELAY_UNTIL_REBOOT MOVEFILE_REPLACE_EXISTING MOVEFILE_WRITE_THROUGH SECURITY_ANONYMOUS SECURITY_CONTEXT_TRACKING SECURITY_DELEGATION SECURITY_EFFECTIVE_ONLY SECURITY_IDENTIFICATION SECURITY_IMPERSONATION SECURITY_SQOS_PRESENT SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX SEM_NOALIGNMENTFAULTEXCEPT SEM_NOOPENFILEERRORBOX PARTITION_ENTRY_UNUSED PARTITION_FAT_12 PARTITION_XENIX_1 PARTITION_XENIX_2 PARTITION_FAT_16 PARTITION_EXTENDED PARTITION_HUGE PARTITION_IFS PARTITION_FAT32 PARTITION_FAT32_XINT13 PARTITION_XINT13 PARTITION_XINT13_EXTENDED PARTITION_PREP PARTITION_UNIX VALID_NTFT PARTITION_NTFT Comments, additions, and bug reports are welcomed. Please address technical questions that are not full bug reports to one of the Usenet newsgroups comp.lang.perl.modules or comp.lang.perl.moderated. Tye McQueen, tye@metronet.com, http://www.metronet.com/~tye/.