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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaDOS calls in the Sybex manuals??
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Date: 5 Jan 88 22:16:36 GMT
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In article <19644@bbn.COM> cosell@bbn.com.UUCP (Bernie Cosell) writes:
>
>I _must_ be missing something -- I have the two-volume Sybex "Amiga
>Programming Manual" (*not* Rob Peck's one-volume one).  On the whole I've
>found it to be a fine, reasonably organized, reasonably complete manual.
>BUT... over the weekend I wanted to do something real simple: I wanted
>to find the creation date of a disk file.  Just a simple "fstat" for
>you Unix-folk.  So I look and look and look.  Nothing.

Mortimore's book does NOT include DOS calls.  If you have MANX 3.4b, it
comes with a stat() call almost identical to UNIX (the date is off by
8 years, though).

-- Marco