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Re: Changing the creator for database
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Paul H Christidis <[log in to unmask]>
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Paul H Christidis <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:41:02 -0700
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>Barry Lake wrote:
>>
>> At 3:02 PM -0600 7/20/00, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>> >Mpex altfile can do this.
>> > -----Original Message-----
>>Is it possible to change the database creator without rebuilding
>>the database?
>>
>> Also, you can STORE the database, then RESTORE it with the
>> "CREATOR=" option.

Jeff replied:

>The fastest way is the posix shell 'chown' command.
>
>Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>

For those that are not comfortable on the posix shell, the following is
pretty fast too:

:ALTFILE filename ;OWNER=newname.account

I'm not sure, though, if one would need to repeat the above for each
dataset or if IMAGE only checks the creator of the root file.

Regards
Paul Christidis

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