Archive Attribute

[Otacustes]

Hi all

Does anyone know how to access the archive attribute for a file? I am writing a backup script with jbuilder (jdk 1.3) which requires setting and reading of the file archive attribute but I cannot find any information on how to achieve this.


All help is greatly appreciated
Kind regards
Ota

 

[tom62]

Sorry, but that is not possible in Java. You can only make a file readonly (there is no way to undo this) or set the last modication timestamp.

 

[stefanwagner]

A not so elegant way would be, to call runtime:
Runtime.getRuntime ().exec (new String [] {"dir", "some flag", "C:/CONFIG.SYS"});
and read the output of that command.

I don't know, whether "dir" is a shell-buildin - then you would need to call ("cmd", "/c", "dir", "...") or something like that.
Else, you have to give the whole path "c:/WINDOWS/system32/dir.exe" or something.

Maybe instead of dir, it is attrib - is it?
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[Otacustes]

Thanks stefanwagner you’re an absolute star.

Thanks for your help


All help is greatly appreciated
Kind regards
Ota