From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c01667c07f51ded5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Advanced file manipulation (multiple question) References: <74a78c42.0503010130.785f178f@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 00:26:56 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.240.168.155 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1109809616 4.240.168.155 (Wed, 02 Mar 2005 16:26:56 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 16:26:56 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8590 Date: 2005-03-03T00:26:56+00:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > Since we seem to have lost the attribution that the original poster > was interested in Windows... We may not still be quoting it, but it's still part of the thread. > Certainly not all files. > > Does that method preserve out-of-band record and page marks on other > operating systems ? Not a factor for the OS of interest. > Certainly it does not preserve all the information, as would be the > case from calling an OS-specific procedure. Certainly all files under the OS of interest. -- Jeff Carter "This school was here before you came, and it'll be here before you go." Horse Feathers 48