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From: haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: archive bit
Keywords: say what?
Message-ID: <194@pigs.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jul 88 17:49:21 GMT
References: <4873@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <699@clsib21.UUCP>
Reply-To: haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie)
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In article <699@clsib21.UUCP> scott@clsib21.UUCP (Scott P. Herzig) writes:
|In article <4873@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>, bobc@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Bob Calbridge) writes:
|> Okay, I give up.  What is the function of the archive bit?
|
|The bit is set by the BACKUP program to indicate whether or not a file
|has been archived.  This makes it easy to spot when a backup has been
|done and what's been saved.

is it safe to assume that mess-dos clears the bit when it writes to the
file?

- john.
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