Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: cp-mv-rm1.1 command substitute Message-ID: <1844@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 3 Aug 90 17:16:03 GMT Lines: 25 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In <13618@cbmvax.commodore.com>, andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) writes: >In article <1837@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes: >>In , hclausen@adspdk.CBMNET (Henrik Clausen) writes: >>>>In article <2666@mindlink.UUCP> a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs) writes: >>do. That means that it can't be counted on. It makes file dates and comments >>useless to have the default behaviour the way it is. >> >>-larry > >The eternal debate. Ah, well. You know, BSD Unix does the same thing. >(gives a copy of a file a new filedate) and people don't claim file dates >are useless on Unix systems. Well, maybe they do :-) There are 3 file dates on BSD files, I think; created, last modified, and last accessed. Would be nice to have this in Amigados, if there was room. -larry -- Sex is better than logic, but I can't prove it. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+