
This module is for formatting file modes and permissions the way that
ls -l does.  For example, if you have a file that is world-readable,
but only writable by its owner, you can use

	file_mode($file)

which will return the string '-rw-r--r--'.

Beta version 0.50.

20 April 1998.  M-J. Dominus (mjd-perl-lsmode@plover.com)
