Hi Gerald.
On Apr. 18, 1998 at 14:30 hours you wrote to Ted Menks:
 GM> but I think that @ext is interpreted as a "string" rather than
 GM> "numeric". 
 GM>     IFF %@filedate[E:\Fd\Incoming\Pending\nodelist.*] GT ...       
 GM> ...%@filedate[E:\Fd\Nodelist\nodelist.*] then
 GM>       move /q ...
 GM>       ...
 GM>     ENDIFF
 GM> may have a better chance of working...  Maybe @filedate should be
 GM> converted to a three digit number with no separator characters?
@FILEAGE[filename[,acw]]:  Returns the date and time of the file as a single
numeric value.  The number can be used to compare the relative ages of two
or more files, but can not be used for date and time calculations as it is
not returned in identifiable units.
   Greetings,
   Peter Holm (pholm@dorf.ccc.or.at) 
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