Re: (How) can I set a file's archive flag?

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From: Joi Ellis [TeamB]
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 20:57

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Holger Stratmann <Holger@cheerful.com> wrote:
> Hello everybody,

> can anybody tell me if it's possible to read/set a file's archive flag?
> I've searched the documentation and cannot find anything. It's kind of
> strange to have something as "setLastModified(long)" available, but not
> "setModified(boolean)"...
> ... I think an archive flag exists in (almost??) every OS, doesn't it?

Nope.  Just on Dos/Windows.

*nix filesystems generally have a 'date last accessed' and 'date last modified'
stored for each file, but not an 'archive' bit.  

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