[Info-vax] BACKUP/BEFORE/BACKUP

[Ady]

"Phillip Helbig---undress to reply" <helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de> wrote 
in message news:ij2u6e$594$1 at online.de...
> In article <KfQ4p.128$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?
>
>

 I'll see if I can dig out some old listings and take a look but I would 
expect that it might be as simple as zero being less than any positive 
integer.

Ady