Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!tub!tubopal!alderaan From: alderaan@tubopal.UUCP (Thomas Cervera) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Archive bit Message-ID: <671@opal.tubopal.UUCP> Date: 10 Aug 89 19:49:20 GMT References: <8908091359.AA08065@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: alderaan@tubopal.UUCP (Thomas Cervera) Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Lines: 18 In article <8908091359.AA08065@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> SQ79@liverpool.ac.UK (Mark Powell) writes: > > Bit 5 of a file mode is the archive bit. This is to do with backing up files. >When a file is backed up it's archive bit is set. When it is next written to > [...] I'm not sure but doesn't the archive bit indicate 'Dear backup program, I'm a file you should add to your archive because I was changed/created after the last backup' ? So, if backed up, a file's archive bit schould be clear -not set. My TOS 1.4 release DOES raise the archive bit on every file creation. One of my ATARI ST Programming Guides says that the archive bit will be set on every successful file creation/write access. -- Thomas Cervera | UUCP: alderaan@tubopal.UUCP SysMan RKOpdp (RSTS/E) | ...!unido!tub!opal!alderaan (Europe) D-1000 Berlin 30 | ...!pyramid!tub!opal!alderaan (World) Motzstrasze 14 | BITNET: alderaan%tubopal@DB0TUI11.BITNET (saves $$$)