What does "chmod 777 ." do?

[budbiss]

I need to do this for a script to work, yet I don't have access to telnet through my shared server account...is there another way to do this?

[Alternative Future]

You should be able to carry this out in your FTP.

Here [webmasterworld.com] is another thread detailing on how to do it through PHP.

-George

[HelenDev]

I came across a script which asked me to do this, I just FTPd the file in the same directory as the other parts of what i was doing and it was fine.

[budbiss]

Thanks. BTW, what does the period signify? Does that make everything in the directory 777?