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RE: B19.1: tar -u option under NT 4.0 SP3 does not update properly
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- Subject: RE: B19.1: tar -u option under NT 4.0 SP3 does not update properly
- From: Graham Murray <GMurray at cware dot co dot uk>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 08:15:40 +0100
>On a FAT filesystem there is only one timestamp and that is the
date
>of last access. Therefore, when tar accesses the file it
updates the
>timestamp to the file and then will think that it has been
modified.
Are you sure that it is the "last accessed" time which is recorded? In
DOS it was always the "last modified" time that was stored. So has NT
changed this on FAT filesystems?
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