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)