| From: | Tim Seifert |
| Date: | 11 Mar 2001 at 11:07:24 |
| Subject: | Re: [D5] Re: How to copy with clone |
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By: Lee Bosch <harshness@home.com>
To: dopus5@lss.com.au <dopus5@lss.com.au>
On: Sunday, March 11, 2001, 4:15:38 AM
Re: [D5] Re: How to copy with clone
Hi Lee,
LB>>> A copy should be a copy and not look like a new file. Nyahh!!!
;-)
LB> To my thinking, the time stamp is an attribute of the file, not the
LB> directory in which it resides. The FileInfoBlock certainly suggests
LB> this relationship.
The file date stamps really ought to be relevant to the actual properties
of the files themselves.
File dates should represent creation or modification dates (which ever's
appropriate), or both (if supported by the OS). Windows also records the
date the file was last accessed (which is probably how it manages to
destroy files that it was only supposed to be "reading").
Likewise, directory dates are supposed to represent the last time the
directory was modified (that's how the Amiga DOS works). If you copy a
swag of directories, the newly created directories (*), ought to have the
current date.
(* you are /making/ new directories, regardless of the fact that you're
"copying" files.)
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