Michael Anderson sez:

>My theory is that traditionally MPE has never been concerned about a file
>actually being changed. It is only concerned with the access options granted
>at FOPEN time.  Then FLCOSE looks at the access options granted, and if the
>access options will allow modification of the file then the modify date in
>updated by FCLOSE, no matter if nothing was changed.

You don't indicate which version of MPE you're on, but I recall in the cobwebs
of my brain, something mentioned in the bowels of the 5.5 Communicator that
changes this behavior for intrinsic access to the files. If you're on 5.0 or
using mapped I/O, lotsa luck.

Regards,


M.