Date Created

[Kenneth Brody]

On 5/13/2011 5:59 AM, haroldef wrote:
[...]
> @cd is 05/01/11 and it should be 01/01/89. No I haven't figured why yet, but
> the dates are about the same as when fpcopy was used. When I say "dates" I
> mean that @cd changes dates. I have copies of the MAC in which @cd changes
> to 11/02/10, and 04/12/11, These dates are, maybe, when Bill or I used fpcopy.

fpcopy doesn't change any of the data, including the system fields.

[...]
>> And, finally, you can't see @CD in a text editor, since it's stored in
>> binary within the record header.
>
> Here is the first record in the file viewed with Atlantis. The "01/01/89"
> shown in the upper right is the creation date. But @cd shows up with one of
> the dates listed above.

I'm not sure what you mean by "the upper right" within a raw dump of the 
data, but I'm going to assume that on your screen the text wrapped such that 
the field containing "01/01/89" (between "EN2" and "JAN") happened to be in 
the upper-right corner.

I have no idea what your field layout is, so I have no way of knowing which 
of your fields happens to contain "01/01/89", but what you are looking at is 
not @CD.

If @CD contains "11/02/10" or "04/12/11", then that's the date that the 
record was created.  How or why it was created on that date, only you can 
answer, but I can guarantee that it wasn't fpcopy that did it.  If the copy 
has that date, then so did the original.

Prove it to yourself.  Copy the file again, and check @CD in the new copy. 
It will not contain today's date.

> k(n( RHODES JERRY W 37 LAWSON RD GUNTERSVILLE AL35976-5322(256) 878-7841EN2
> 01/01/89 JAN Y65-66 Delete email 12/10/9565 01/14/0402/07/11 66 10/08/01
>
> 11/20/05 Y 89 k(n( WEED CHARLES T PO BOX 187 - 271 SNELL ST PINCHARD AL36371
> (334) 983-4291SN 01/01/89 Y53-56
> 53CWEED329 at aol.com 05/08/9903/30/10 56 10/08/01
>
> 03/30/10 Y 89
>
> In the attached jpg is a picture of screen1, in which !@cd is in the upper
> right.
>
> I don't know what is going on.

Someone created the record on the date contained within @CD.

-- 
Kenneth Brody