System date behavior wish (GRX)

[Dave Snyder]

Chris Sellitto wrote:
> All,
> 
> I don't know (or remember) if this topic has been broached in the past, but here goes.  I was wondering how difficult it would be to have the @system date fields retain their values upon copying new records.  I know it would be just as easy carrying a date field on the record, but I feel this is an inefficient way of doing things, not to mention a waste of field space.  We archive our data here on a regular basis, and having this option would be great.  Maybe have a new flag on the copy command that would instruct filePro to retain its system dates (@cd, @ud, @bd).
> 
> Hopefully others out there feel the way I do.  I don't know how difficult it would be, but I think it would make a great feature.
> 
> 
> Thank you
> Christopher Sellitto
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How about a flag to the copy command that allowed the coping of records
without modification of the system fields.

Or and alternate to the copy command such as "archive" that
would allow that behavior.



Dave Snyder