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From: bovet@hao.ucar.edu (Ray Bovet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Fdatime under Laser C
Keywords: Laser C Megamax Fdatime
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Date: 13 Nov 88 03:49:01 GMT
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I'm having a terrible time trying to get Fdatime to modify
a file modification time and date stamp using Laser C.  I note
that the ABACUS book reverses the order of the read and write flag
values relative to what Megamax shows but as near as I can tell the
Megamax documentation is correct.  At any rate, I can read the time
and date just fine (and can verify that it matches what I find in the
DTA using FSFIRST - FSNEXT.  However, when I try to write a different
value into the field, I get no complaints but the value doesn't get changed.
It doesn;t seem to matter whether I Fopen the file for read only or for
write first.  Has anyone else succesfully used this call?  If so, could
you please include a brief, functional, code fragment?  Thanks very much!

				Ray