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From: covici@chinet.chi.il.us (John Covici)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: rename bug in ms-dos
Message-ID: <1990Sep19.003223.9414@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 19 Sep 90 00:32:23 GMT
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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I have been wondering for a long time what to do in general about a bug in
MS-DOS (at least 4.01 and 3.21 that I am sure of) in that if I rename a file
it doesn't set the archive bit so that when I back it up; well it won't get
backed up under its new name.

As a temporary solution I use my command-line recall to make rename invoke chmod 
afterwards.  This is a kludge and I wonder if anyone's written
a mod to rename to do the right thing.

Thanks much for your assistance.

Please send e-mail as well as the newsgroup as I get many megabytes
behind in reading.

         John
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         John Covici

         covici@chinet.chi.il.us
         claris!wet!covici@ames.arc.nasa.gov