[Info-vax] BACKUP/BEFORE/BACKUP

[IanMiller]

On Feb 8, 7:36 pm, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---
undress to reply) wrote:
>      When you use /BACKUP with /BEFORE, files with a BACKUP date prior
>      to the specified date or time are selected. Files with no BACKUP
>      date (that is, /RECORD was not specified when the file was saved
>      or copied) are also selected.
>
> That last sentence makes BACKUP behave differently than other commands,
> and differently than BACKUP with other qualifiers.  Though this feature
> is useful, why does it exist only in the combination above?


I guess No backup date is same as 17 Nov 1858 so that is earlier than
the specified date.