>>>Hidy,
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>>>I'm not so sure. I believe that the time stamps are stored in the FAT. I don't think it would be practical to cache information going there, especially if the handle had been closed. Seems like asking for trouble.
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>>That's *if* the drive is using FAT. I don't know how it would work on NTFS, Novell, etc.
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>Hi Craig,
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>Oh phooey, it's Friday isn't it.:-) I didn't mean it to be taken so literally. Whatever file system is used (same results on both NT and Novell). Darn acronyms:-).

I don't think it really matters. If the drive controller is caching the write, then the OS may not have detected the change yet.