Tom,

Does this also happens with QUAD and/or Qedit?

Bonnie

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Subject:    Re: File Creation/Modification Dates
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Date:       11/12/99 9:18 AM

At 10:11 11/12/1999 -0500, Carol Kaffenberger wrote:
>We are on MPE/ix 5.5 PP7.  Should the creation date on an
>existing permanent file change when modifying a file using
>EDITOR.PUB.SYS?  For example, I had an old file with a
>creation and modification date of June 1, 1996.  After I
>edited the file, I expected to see the modification date
>change to today's date and the creation date to remain June
>1, 1996.  But the creation date also changed to today's
>date.  What am I missing?  Please send responses directly to

When you text in a file in EDITOR, it copies the file to a work file and
closes the text file.  If you have ever seen files with a file type of
EDITQ, that's an EDITOR work file.  When you KEEP the file, it essentially
purges and rebuilds the original file, and copies the work file back to the
new file.  That's why the creation date changed, it really is a new file.


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