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From: ca053@unocss.UUCP (Tim Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: files date.
Summary: Yet another legitimate reason...
Message-ID: <239@unocss.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 88 15:29:08 GMT
References: <8802091036.AA20109@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <2072@bsu-cs.UUCP> <2076@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Organization: U. of Nebraska at Omaha
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In article <2076@bsu-cs.UUCP>, neubauer@bsu-cs.UUCP (Paul Neubauer) writes:
>
> I am sure that some people may want to predate a file for reasons like that,
> but I can also think of at least one legitimate reason for wanting to change
> a file's date (to later).  That is something like the *nix touch utility
> that is used along with make.  Rather than actually modifying the file
> itself, a VMS touch utility could simply change the date to force CMS, MMS
> or some other make-type utility to recompile it.
> 

    Another VERY good reason, and I'm sure Rahul's, is to restore the original
date to a file extracted from an archive, such as Zoo. Just about every
other system in the world supports changing file dates, so I would hope there's
a halfway easy way to do it in VMS as well...


                                        Tim Russell
                                        The University of Nebraska at Omaha