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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Why does "file" change the creation time on some Unix systems?
Message-ID: <1850@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 28 Jun 89 17:41:07 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >>If what you say is completely true, you must be running a pretty bizarre
 >>version of UNIX; no version I know of maintains the *creation* time of a
 >>file. 
 >
 >If so, to what "creation" time does the -c option of ls refer?

It doesn't refer to *ANY* "creation" time, it refers to the inode change
time.  If your manual says it refers to the creation time, either your
manual is wrong or you're running a pretty bizarre version of UNIX.