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From: jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry F Aguirre)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: file times
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Date: Wed, 13-May-87 15:08:47 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 13 15:08:47 1987
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In article <12854@watnot.UUCP> djfiander@watnot.UUCP (David Fiander) writes:
>I just finished reading the MINIX book.  It is basically V7 compatible, except
>it only stores modification time in the i-nodes (like MS-DOS).  This was done
>for space reasons.  My question is: do any of the usual UNIX utilties/programs
>use the creation/access times in a file, or were they just put in because some-
>body thought they might be useful?

Aside from the cleaning up of unused files mentioned by others there is
one utility not mentioned, mail!  Mail uses a comparison of changed and
accessed times to decide whether you have "NEW" mail.  Not a vital
service but it is used.