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From: det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Mtools bug???
Keywords: mtools,bug,datestamp
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.172043.9293@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Date: 15 Mar 91 17:20:43 GMT
References: <1991Mar11.154203.26652@mlb.semi.harris.com>
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routh@eltanin.rtp.semi.harris.com (Kevin Routh x622) writes:

>When doing
>an mcopy from diskette -> SparcStation, the file date/time gets screwed 
>up.

What do you mean by "screwed up?"

>It's ok in the other direction (Sun -> diskette).  Has any one
>else seen this problem, and if so, is there a fix???

If you mean that the modification time of the file gets updated during the copy
(as opposed to the default messy-dos modus operandi), you can use the -m option
to mcopy to suppress this behaviour.
Otherwise, it seems to work fine on my 386 based system (esix 5.3.2-d).
-- 
Derek "Tigger" Terveer	det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG -- U of MN Women's Lax
I am the way and the truth and the light, I know all the answers; don't need
your advice.  -- "I am the way and the truth and the light" -- The Legendary Pink Dots