great new wish list item, but how will it really work?

[Joe Chasan]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 10:21:42PM -0400, wvaughan at steelerubber.com wrote:
> <quote who="John Esak">
> > John
> >> >
> >> > To your wish add @md (Moved Date) and @mb (Moved By) ....
> >>
> >> forget it, if you change the structure of key file you will put this
> >> wish so far on the backburner you may as well kill it, as happens to
> >> others with this requirement.
> >>
> >
> > Those would not require changing the key file. There are many (I think 10)
> > unused bytes in it now... (not sure about 10, but a lot).
> 
> Enough for two more @events plus...
> Since this this is been this way since caveman days,
> How about haveing Howie or Ken chime in on some of the silly ideas
> you might have had to use those space fillers for...

If it were me, i'd like to see matching time for all date stamps
@CT=creation time, @UT=Update time, @BT=batch time
 
> One I could think of would be a write-protect flag, as well as a
> delete-protect flag.
> 
> One other thing I'd really use would be @uc to keep track of how
> many times @ud was updated.

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