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Old 08-02-2005
radhika radhika is offline
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fdate- if a data file is created with actual data then first 14 chars of the data file will have the datetime stamp(14char format) in the data file for each record.

If an empty data file is created then file size is 0. With the help of file size I am trying to get the date time stamp of when the empty file was created. This is filedate. Requirement is to put this stamp in another control file. This