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From: forcheck@rulcs.uucp (Jan Joris Vereijken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Archive bit
Summary: I want it to make sense!
Keywords: file, archive, harddisk, backup
Message-ID: <645@rulcs.cs.rul.nl>
Date: 27 Mar 90 13:41:19 GMT
Sender: news@rulcs.cs.rul.nl
Followup-To: forchk@hlerul53.bitnet
Organization: Dept. C. Sc., Leiden, NL
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Dear ST'ers,

Does anyone of you know of a program that will talk some sense into
the archive-bit associated with every file? Probably you know what I
mean: in MS-DOS (yuk!) this bit gets set every time the file is
changed, and reset every time it is backed up. In that way incremental
hard-disk backups become a snap. 
TOS unfortunalety doesn't do this... This is a real pain as I backup
my SH204 using PC-SPEED & PC tools de Luxe (hey hey!). Sure works great,
I even can optimize my TOS-partitions fine with a MS-DOS optimize tool :-)

So, who can give me a pointer to this (preferrably auto-folder) program
that I feel must exist somewhere? (btw: wasn't this cured in TOS 1.4?)

Kind regards,

Jan Joris Vereijken
forchk@hlerul53.bitnet