[Info-vax] BACKUP/BEFORE/BACKUP

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <KfQ4p.128$XM7.107 at newsfe18.ams2>, "Ady" <abc at yyz.com>
writes: 

> >     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?
> >
> 

> Have a look at the text under HELP BACKUP /BACKUP. It clearly states that 
> "When you use /BACKUP with /BEFORE  files with a BACKUP date prior to the 
> specified date and time are selected. Files with no backup date (that is, 
> /RECORD was not specified when the file was saved or copied) are also 
> selected"

Right.  The question is WHY?