MIKE RUSKAI wrote to WILL HONEA on 11-12-1999

MR> I haven't run into anything like what you describe, but since I'm
MR> not entirely certain what you're asking, I can't say whether or not
MR> the problem exists.  I haven't had any programs have trouble seeing
MR> directories which have had their contents changed, if that's close
MR> to what you're getting at.
MR> 
MR> I've also not used PRM for quite some time, due to a problem that
MR> no other program experienced, which they couldn't duplicate, much
MR> less fix.

This got several programs.  Basically, when IBM started to maintain
the archive bit on  directory entries programs that didn't properly
account for the archive bit would not see directories where the archive
bit was set.  It wasn't an IBM error per se, just laziness and sloppy
coding on the part of some programmers but the result was reasonably
wide spread.  It was enough of a nuisance that I ran a script every few
days to reset all the archive bits on all directories since I could
never tell what program would mess up next.  FP 12 reverted to the
early behavior.

Will Honea 
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