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File System: Revision date = creation date

The Question is:

A user at our site inadvertently set protection at the highest
level of a very large directory, which caused the revision date
of every file in the structure to change to the current day's date.

How can we change all file & directory revision dates to be
the same as the creation dates?

The Answer is:

   Acquire a copy of the OpenVMS V2.0 Freeware CD-ROM, and look for the
   DFU utility -- DFU can do this for you.

   The OpenVMS Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) posting contains pointers
   to various Internet sites, including sites where the Freeware CD-ROM
   is accessable via ftp.  The FAQ is archived at:

    comp.os.vms newsgroup
    comp.answers newsgroup
    news.answers newsgroup
    http://h71000.www7.hp.com/wizard/openmvs_faq.txt
    ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/dec-faq/vms
    CompuServe VAXFORUM, Library 0, VMSFAQ.TXT