[Info-vax] OpenVMS - file selection abnormally with Copy / Rename or user ignorance?

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On 03/30/2015 11:18 PM, mcleanjoh at gmail.com wrote:
> So you think there's no difference between copying (or whatever) the data within a file and simply reporting what's in the header block?

I think it should be possible to get the creation date out of the file 
header (as dir/date does) without generating an access conflict while 
another process writes to the file. Based on that info copy and friends 
can select the to be opened and copied files according to the /since 
qualifier.