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From: boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Preventing date rollback
Message-ID: <1959@necisa.ho.necisa.oz>
Date: 10 Dec 90 03:09:53 GMT
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In article <rcosj.660348537@chudich> rcosj@chudich.co.rmit.oz (John Simmons) writes:
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>Couldn't you get your program to check the date fairly regularly when it is
>run and write it away somewhere, keeping track of the latest date reached so
>far, then refuse to run at any time/date earlier than the latest one stored.

No.

How are you going to stop the place where it's written from being re-witten?


Boyd Roberts			boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au

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