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From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What do the protection codes mean?
Message-ID: <9221@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 5 Jan 90 14:23:38 GMT
References: <270@dino.cs.iastate.edu> <824@jc3b21.UUCP>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <824@jc3b21.UUCP> fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe) writes:
>archived and not changed since then.  As soon as a file is touched (opened
>for writing or updating) the "Archived" bit should be reset.  Of course, until 
>the OS actually supports those bits they don't mean anything at all.

The OS (both the fast file system and the old file system) have supported
the archive bit for a long time.  (since 1.2)

The fast file system supports the rw bits since 1.3

Both filesystems have always supported the delete bit.

			andy
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