Understood. Thanks. On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Les Koehler <vmr...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> Watch out! The date of a file is the date it was last written, *not* > accessed! > > There's an old, old, story of the MHV IBM manager that wanted to save > (then) expensive disk space, so he ordered that all CMS systems with files > older than some dd/mm/yy be erased from *all* disks by Operations Staff. In > less than four hours almost everyone on the internal network had a copy of > Martie's FIXDATE and it's default operation was to use today's date! > > Rumor had it that some beginner Sysprog wiped out irrecoverable > documentation of an important corporate project that was 5 years old and had > been set aside due to other priorities. > > Les > > > Mark Pace wrote: > >> Can I manipulate the date of a CMS file? I want to test a program that >> deletes files older than a certain date. In linux I can use *touch* to set >> the date to whatever I choose. >> >> -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems
