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RE: B19.1: tar -u option under NT 4.0 SP3 does not update properly
- To: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>, Jacques Lavictoire <lavictoi at CCRS dot NRCan dot gc dot ca>, "'earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com'" <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Subject: RE: B19.1: tar -u option under NT 4.0 SP3 does not update properly
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 00:48:30 +0400
Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
> On a FAT filesystem there is only one timestamp and that is the date
> of last access. Therefore, when tar accesses the file it updates the
> timestamp to the file and then will think that it has been modified.
>
Vfat on 95 and NT holds all three timestamps.
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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
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