Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 16:14:02 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Changing directory's timestamp
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On 13 Jul 2000, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
> [...]
> > The only possible way of working around that is to access the disk at
> > the sector (BIOS) level, 
> 
> Sure? I always thought that access via old-style (as in 'feels like
> CP/M') FCB functions would allow to access the inner contents of
> directories, too?

Not anymore, not since DOS 5.0.  They plumbed that back door.