Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!scott
From: scott@stl.stc.co.uk (Mike Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: File modification dates
Message-ID: <633@acer.stl.stc.co.uk>
Date: 8 Mar 88 11:25:19 GMT
References: <365@bnl.ARPA>
Reply-To: scott@stl.stc.co.uk (Mike Scott)
Organization: STL,Harlow,UK.
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In article <365@bnl.ARPA> stern@bnl.ARPA (Eric G. Stern) writes:
>
>Here are two programs which change modification dates on files.  The
...
>Note that it is only possible to set the creation date of a file when
>it is initially created, either by a using an FDL specification,
>or by setting the XAB$Q_CDT field in the $XABDAT block when the
...

NOT TRUE.

The program FILESET which was distibuted recently (or my mod to it, I
forget!) can change at any time the creation, revision, backup or
expiry date of a file, along with the revision count, file attributes
(record type,
carriage control, etc) and characteristics (locked/contiguous etc).

-- 
Regards. Mike Scott (scott@stl.stc.co.uk <or> ...uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!scott)
phone +44-279-29531 xtn 3133.