Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!seismo!mcvax!unido!laura!hmm From: hmm@laura.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Archive bit? (folder attributes?) Message-ID: <50@laura.irb.informatik> Date: Tue, 16-Jun-87 17:52:16 EDT Article-I.D.: laura.50 Posted: Tue Jun 16 17:52:16 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Jun-87 01:28:34 EDT References: <343@parcvax.Xerox.COM> <756@atari.UUCP> <1994@ihuxy.ATT.COM> Reply-To: hmm@unido.UUCP (Hans-Martin Mosner) Organization: University of Dortmund, W-Germany Lines: 13 In article <1994@ihuxy.ATT.COM> nowlin@ihuxy.ATT.COM (Jerry Nowlin) writes: >So far I've ignored the fact that the date and time of folders don't seem >to make sense. Somehow, GEMDOS does not byte-swap the timestamps for folders. So they are in 68000 byte order, while all other stuff on the disks are in 8086 byte order (for MessDOS compatibility). I have reported this bug to Atari back in those good old days when TOS weren't burnt in ROMs, but obviously no one heard me :-( Since you don't need this stuff anyway, just ignore it... Greetings, Hans-Martin , D