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Subject: aging files
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Date: Sat, 31-May-86 01:07:21 EDT
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I was wondering if anyone out there has the same problem we have and if
a solution has been found for this problem.

The problem is aging files on our disks.  We have files that are a couple
of years old but we don't know if they are still being used or not.
VMS does not mark the file as accessed whenever it is read therefore
we don't know whether to delete it or not.  We are trying to clean up
the disks as best as we can but we seem to have a lot of these files
around.  We could always find the owners and ask them but it would be
time consuming.

If anybody has experience this and has found a solution, I would
appreciate hearing from you.

Thank you in advance for your time,

Joanne Templeton
McMaster University,
Hamilton, Canada

ps. We are running VMS 4.3.
    We have RM05's and RA81's