Maintain System Creation Date (GRX)

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Is it just me, or did John Esak say:
> without any chance of devastation or problem.  It would only be a matter of
> "WRITING" the free record you just got to which you just did the LOOKUP and
> COPY. Then before leaving the record use some quick file I/O to get that
> newly created record and use the xxxBUF(16|32) commands in filePro to place
> the correct system date into the header of each record. I'll think about it
> next week sometime... It isn't "real" hard, but there are a couple gotchas
> you need to get around... But it is way safer than what you're doing... I
> cn't put any brain power on it now... I've got lots of stuff planned for
> tonight and this weekend.  Monday, if someone hasn't posted the code
> already... I'll attack it and post it soon thereafter.  I must have missed
> your original query, or just overlooked it when you first posted it, sorry.

Seems to me that the "extra" codeless way of doing this would be to set
up a VM running Windows on the same system, give the VM access to the
requisite areas of the filesystem, and run the processing the OP already
had inside the VM.  filePro (and indeed everything) outside the VM would
be none the wiser, as the "real" system time would be maintained, while the
VM could function with the modified "system clock".

Sounds like a job for VirtualBox.

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