| From: | Dave Clarke |
| Date: | 11 Mar 2001 at 05:27:28 |
| Subject: | [D5] Re: How to copy with clone |
Once upon a time, 11-Mar-01 03:45:38, Lee Bosch spoke thus about
'[D5] Re: How to copy with clone':
>> Not in my version.
> The help file that I have doesn't mention what the flags represent; simply
>that they are called "attributes" as opposed to "Datestamp", "Protection
>Bits" and "Comment" (filenote).
Also copy source's:
When set, these attributes of the original are to be copied as well as
the file itself.
It needs no other explanation, it's telling you that it will set the 'new'
file's attributes to the same as the original file depending on what items
you have set.
What the items are, (in this case 3 of them but it could as easily be 1934
different file attributes.... if that many existed), are of secondary
relevance.
If you don't know what datestamp, protection bits and comment (filenote)
mean, then you should look them up in the AmigaDOS manual, since these
pertain primarily to AmigaDOS and not DOpus.
>>> A copy should be a copy and not look like a new file. Nyahh!!!
>>
>> Relative to the final destination it is a 'new' file.
>>
>> Subjectively to you, the file 'contents' are not.
> The *ONLY* difference between the files are where they are located. If
>your copy or move program is working correctly, they should be otherwise
>indistinguishable. As such, I believe they should carry all the same
>"attributes". To my thinking, the time stamp is an attribute of the file,
>not the directory in which it resides. The FileInfoBlock certainly
>suggests this relationship.
<QUOTE>
NEW <adj> only recently existing, done or made; not known before; just
discovered or acquired;.........
</QUOTE>
By definition, (ie. it did not exist until created), the file is 'new'
regardless of it's location or it's contents.
Obviously I should have said:
Objectively, any copy (clone) of a file, (or indeed anything), will always
be 'new'.
Dave