On 29 Jun 1998, Ty Sarna wrote:

: Right.  DOS is (of course) backwards from everything else :-).  The
: NetBSD archived flag should have basicly the same semantics, but the
: sense of the bit is reversed (clear by default, clear when file written
: to).  The DOS archive flag basicly is a dirty bit, while the NetBSD
: (AmigaOS, etc) archived bit is !dirty.  msdosfs should invert the msdos
: archive bit to determine the NetBSD archived bit. 

I'll look into reversing this relationship in msdosfs to match the correct
sense of the bit, because I may be making additions for pax that make use of
the bit to backup dos filesystems (in response to a question on another
NetBSD list). 

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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)