Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!erix!bengtb
From: bengtb@erix.UUCP (Bengt Baeverman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: How to tell what utility wrote a file
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Date: 18 May 88 19:20:19 GMT
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Reply-To: bengtb@erix.UUCP (Bengt B{verman)
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In article <880508105641.000021D73A1@naif.JPL.NASA.GOV> PJS@NAIF.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter Scott) writes:
>Is there a general method for telling what utility wrote a file, assuming
>we are talking about DEC or commercial utilities, not home grown things?
>Neither DUMP nor ANALYZE/RMS are satisfactory.
>
>Peter Scott (pjs%grouch@jpl-mil.jpl.nasa.gov)

Unless you can tell from the filename who created the file there is no way
to tell who made the file. You can tell what user, but not what program 
created a certain file.

bengtb@erix.se
Bengt Baverman, Opiab Digitech, Stockholm, Sweden