[Info-vax] BACKUP/BEFORE/BACKUP

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article
<639871e2-f144-4b9a-99ca-5561f605aa2a at y36g2000pra.googlegroups.com>,
IanMiller <gxys at uk2.net> writes: 

> 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 pr=
> ior
> >      to the specified date or time are selected. Files with no BACK=
> UP
> >      date (that is, /RECORD was not specified when the file was sav=
> ed
> >      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.

Right, that makes sense.  So, one can do BACKUP/BEFORE/BACKUP and select 
the files with no backup date, but not DELETE/BEFORE/BACKUP etc.