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From: silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Obtaining the last access dates of files stored in a MS-DOS environment
Message-ID: <1990Dec29.002222.23554@xrtll.uucp>
Date: 29 Dec 90 00:22:22 GMT
References: <1905@nvuxr.UUCP>
Reply-To: silver@xrtll.UUCP (Hi Ho Silver)
Organization: Not around here, pal!
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In article <1905@nvuxr.UUCP> efam@nvuxr (elliott familant) writes:
$know of no such similar information in the MS-DOS environment.  I know
$you can get the last date that a file was modified, but I would like the
$last access date.  Is this information obtainable?   

   No; the only time and date DOS associates with a file is the time and
date of last modification.  Some networks, though, do store additional
information; Novell NetWare, for instance, maintains time and date information
for file creation, last modification, and last access (though the latter
will be meaningless most of the time if you back up your network regularly).
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