A tool to delete all Pathworks ACEs ?

[Paul Nunez]

Hi,

I doubt the ported version is any way different.

That being said, a new utility is being written for inclusion with CIFS (since the current utility cannot be included for legal reasons), so I'll ask the engineer to consider this feature enhancement.

Any others (not already mentioned in this thread)?

Paul

[Jeremy Begg]

Hi Paul,

>Any other requests?

Fixing CIFS so that it ignored the Pathworks ACEs would remove most of the need for the program! ;-)

More constructively ... the new program should look much like any other VMS file utility, i.e. it should accept the usual qualifiers /BACKUP /BEFORE /BY_OWNER /CONFIRM /CREATED /EXCLUDE /EXPIRED /LOG /MODIFIED /SINCE /STYLE and take a comma-separated list of file specifications (with wildcards and related file processing).

As to how you might invoke this utility, you could make it an option on the SET SECURITY command, e.g.

$ SET SECURITY/ACL/DELETE=PATHWORKS file

Thanks,
Jeremy Begg

[Jon Pinkley]

RE:"As to how you might invoke this utility, you could make it an option on the SET SECURITY command, e.g.

$ SET SECURITY/ACL/DELETE=PATHWORKS file"

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And add /notouch or some other qualifier that will tell it not to change the modification date of the files.