how to get a file's modified date/time and size in bytes?

[madscijr]

the problem is that it was ridiculously easy to get the date and time of anything.  to change it at will.

I get that they wouldn't want it to be easy to CHANGE a file's timestamp, but that's different from READING a timestamp. Tightening security 'til you can't even use your computer for the things it should be able to do drives me crazy too. That said, I can't imagine it would be impossible to READ a file's modified date cross-platform, it just would use different methods under the hood depending on the platform.

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        'WHY DOES THIS RETURN A BUNCH OF JUNK WITH THE FILE?: raw$ = _ReadFile$(FileIn$)

this has to be a missing chr$(0) somewhere.

Do you mean missing in the temp file being read?