Date   : Wed, 28 May 1986 23:14:11 GMT
From   : Ted Medin <medin%noscvax.uucp@BRL.ARPA>
Subject: Re: Change User Number

In article <926@brl-smoke.ARPA> treid@MITRE.ARPA (Thomas Reid) writes:
>Is there a utility which will move a file from one user number to another
>without having to copy and then delete (i.e., just change the user number)?
>Thank you.  Tom.

 You may have hundreds of answers to this by now but here is one more.
Use new sweep and just rename it from one user to the other. Most everyone
has a sweep and new sweep is just great.