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hi friends

i am new to java , presently i am working with files, i want a method to get file created date .i got a method lastModified() from File class which returns last modified date rather than created date . please help me soon if there is any method to get created date of a file .
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kumarswamy adurthi
 
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I think that's one of those platform dependent things. Not all operating systems have it, so the Java designers just left it out. MS-DOS and Windows only ever kept last modified so far as I know.
 
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