In , on 08/14/05 
   at 04:40 PM, "David Eckard"  typed:



>That will work fine... I played with it.  You have to mod the results
>slightly to get the dates in a comparable format but it should work for
>comparing dates on two files.  Here is my test

Except for Y2K problems (and there's another sysfiletree option that makes
it yyyymmddhhmmss, I think), why bother with all the arithmetic?

Why not just compare the strings resulting from:

left(file.1,20)

 
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