Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!decwrl!sdd.hp.com!usc!rutgers!cbmvax!andy From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: cp-mv-rm1.1 command substitute Message-ID: <13618@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 3 Aug 90 21:00:08 GMT References: <1837@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Reply-To: andy@cbmvax (Andy Finkel) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 21 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 :-) andy -- andy finkel {uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy Commodore-Amiga, Inc. "Of course it's the murder weapon. Who would frame someone with a fake?" Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share. I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.