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From: bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Setting time and date of a file
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Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 04:00:28 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 13 04:00:28 1987
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Curtis Smith writes:
>
>I am trying to copy a file from a remote machine to my Amiga preserving
>the modification time of the file.  My question is how to set the time
>of the Amiga file to the time of the remote file.  Under UNIX, utime()
>usually accomplishes this.  Is there a similar function under AmigaDOS?

The function is an AmigaDOS packet:

ACTION_SET_DATE=34L

Sent it to the message port returned by DeviceProc(filename)
Open your libraries with 33L since this is a new V1.2 function

arg0	= NULL
arg1	= lock on parent of file
arg2	= BPTR (yick!) to BSTR of filename
arg3	= APTR to a DateStampt structure


[ You will need to know how to send DOS packets to use this information ]


A user can set the time of a file with "SetDate" form the A500/A2000
Workbench disk (About $650, includes A500).  This has a "defect" in
that you _must_ supply a time and can't just "touch" the file with the
current date and time.

 
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