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From: andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: how to compare file modification time in bourne shell script
Summary: just broken.
Message-ID: <11126@alice.UUCP>
Date: 3 Aug 90 05:55:06 GMT
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	if this is true, then sun's make is broken (as it often is).
there is no reason why it should do an lstat rather than a stat to find
out the modifcation time.