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From: tenny@z.dec.com.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Cp: A replacement for AmigaDos Copy
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Date: Tue, 26-May-87 19:42:57 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 26 19:42:57 1987
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Charles Cleveland @ gatech writes:
 
>In article <741@van-bc.UUCP> jlydiatt@van-bc.UUCP (Jeff Lydiatt) writes:

>>Here is a replacement for AmigaDog "copy" program....
>>It ... has the added bonus that it retains the date of copied file.
 
>This is not a feature, it is a bug :-).  Virtually nobody does it this
>way and for good reason.  Kindly include this feature as an option only, and
>not the default one at that.

Since you seem to know that nobody uses date preserving copy programs,
would you care to tell the rest of us what the good reason is?

I agree the date preservation should be an option, but I find the ability
to preserve dates extremely useful in file management.

Dave Tenny
Lisp Development, Digital Equipment Corp.