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From: nowlin@ihuxy.ATT.COM (Jerry Nowlin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Archive bit? (folder attributes?)
Message-ID: <1994@ihuxy.ATT.COM>
Date: Thu, 11-Jun-87 09:18:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihuxy.1994
Posted: Thu Jun 11 09:18:16 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jun-87 09:14:48 EDT
References: <343@parcvax.Xerox.COM> <756@atari.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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Summary: folder attributes question

In article <756@atari.UUCP>, apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
> The archive bit is bit 5 (0x20) in the file attributes.  Directories
> (folders) don't have a useful archive bit.

So far I've ignored the fact that the date and time of folders don't seem
to make sense.  Now that someone's mentioned that folder attributes aren't
the same as plain files I thought I'd ask about the time stamp problem. 
What exactly can you do with the information that you get about folders
from GEMDOS?  Are the name and extension the only things that are usable
besides the attribute that says it's a folder?

Jerry Nowlin
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