Accessing windoze file attributes

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message
<8dc0fa8e-f0e6-4603-9283-186551597e8d at a19g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>, Douglas 
wrote:

> It works well enough, but now I want to make it sensitive to the "A"
> attribute (only backup the file if it is set), and update it
> afterwards (unset it). This will help me avoid wasted disk due to
> needless backups.

Why reinvent rsync?