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From: scotty@l5comp.UUCP (Scott Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Cp: A replacement for AmigaDos Copy
Message-ID: <156@l5comp.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 27-May-87 06:59:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: l5comp.156
Posted: Wed May 27 06:59:53 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 30-May-87 06:43:16 EDT
References: <741@van-bc.UUCP> <121@gtss.UUCP>
Reply-To: scotty@l5comp.UUCP (Scott Turner)
Organization: L5 Computing, Edmonds, WA
Lines: 28
Keywords: AmigaDos Copy Regular Expressions
Summary: Setting the date is a WHAT?!?

In article <121@gtss.UUCP> chas@gtss.UUCP (Charles Cleveland) 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.
One man's bug is another man's feature.

I for one am ALL in favor of having my datestamps left alone when I move files
around. I find it a bloody nuisance having the datestamp changed everytime I
move a file from one place to another. And for those that would argue that
dates are not a good way of verifying if one file is newer than the other, I
submit that in that case why not do away with them all together? And I don't
consider and exact copy of another file to be 'newer' than the original.

If I need to change the datestamp that's what I've got 'touch' for.

If there is some reason for why a copy should be seen as 'newer' I'd love to
hear about it.

Scott Turner
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