Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!philapd!idcapd!robl From: robl@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (R. Luursema) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: lharc on UNIX (was Re: But is there a ZIP? (Was "unzip for unix?")) Message-ID: <889@idcapd.idca.tds.philips.nl> Date: 21 Sep 90 08:03:04 GMT References: <1990Sep14.183442.5007@sj.ate.slb.com> <1990Sep14.212200.6207@looking.on.ca> <58772@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <1990Sep15.202211.24997@uwasa.fi> <4376@bwdls58.UUCP> <1990Sep19.074343.22346@uwasa.fi> Organization: Philips Information Systems, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands Lines: 26 In article <1990Sep19.074343.22346@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK) writes: >Ah, but there may be nothing to resist :-) since you might not have >thought of all the angles. There is no guarantee, that the .zip >file on the Unix system has the correct date (in practice incorrect >dates are frequent). Since there is no zip for Unix, and I haven't >figured out a system to change the date on BSD 4 (or whatever we >have) Unix, the calistechnics is necessary until some kind soul >points out how the original .zip's date can be adjusted on Unix. > You can modify the files date under Unix, using touch. Usage: touch [-amc] [MMDDhhmm[YY]] files... Though in the X/open manual the setting of a date is flagged as possible unsupportable (on certain flavours of unix). Our System V does support it, Apollo BSD Unix 4.2 does NOT support it, The MKS toolkit on DOS does support it. Rob. -- #---------------------------------------# ______ # Rob Luursema, BS-HW, V1b2 ext 2246 # /____ / organized # Philips Information Systems Apeldoorn # /____ / like the # Domain: robl@idca.tds.philips.nl # /____ / tower of # UUCP: ..!hp4nl!philapd!robl # /____ / pisa ... #include # /____ / #---------------------------------------# ======== A good workman is known by his tools