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From: cfchiesa@bsu-cs.UUCP (Sir Xetwnk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: files date.
Message-ID: <2204@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 88 16:41:57 GMT
References: <8802091036.AA20109@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <2072@bsu-cs.UUCP> <7080@cisunx.UUCP>
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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Summary: Maybe so

In article <7080@cisunx.UUCP>, cmf@cisunx.UUCP (Carl M. Fongheiser) writes:
> Any professor who depends on any file date stored by the VMS file system is
> making a BIG mistake.  Why?  You don't even have to make a copy of the file
> to change one of the dates.  Granted, RMS won't let you do it, but the ACP
> (renamed the XQP) is quite happy to let you do it.  I don't have it handy,
> but all the details are explained in the I/O User's Guide.

For a University faculty (I assume) member, you seem remarkably well informed!
Around here, it would boggle the minds of most people to find out that it was
even possible.  Besides that, next to nobody here reaches the level of knowing
how to do it until they're beyond the point in the curriculum where they'd
WANT to do it.  And telling most people around here that "it's in the manuals"
(which are ALL available for public access) generates the same response as if
you'd said "they're carved in Swahili on the pinnacle of a mountain in 
Timbuktu."  The profs HERE are fairly safe on this particular matter, in MOST 
cases.  

Chris Chiesa, Senior, Ball State University, Muncie, IN

 

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<> cfchiesa@bsu-cs.UUCP                                                       <>
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