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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!marlin.jcu.edu.au!csrdh
  3. From: csrdh@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Rowan Hughes)
  4. Subject: touch <date> won't work
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov16.074029.11508@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
  6. Summary: touch <date>, cp -p  don't work
  7. Keywords: touch cp
  8. Organization: James Cook University
  9. Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 07:40:29 GMT
  10. Lines: 13
  11.  
  12. The command "touch 02171425 filnam" does NOT set the modification
  13. time to 17-Feb 14:25, under AIX3.1.5.   Also "cp -p fil1 fil2" does
  14. NOT preserve the modification time, i.e. fil2 is set to the current
  15. time, not the mod time of fil1. This makes the "touch" command useless.
  16.  
  17. Is there a fix that works. e-mail replies to csrdh@marlin.jcu.edu.au.
  18.  
  19. TNKX in advance.
  20.  
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  22. Rowan Hughes                                James Cook University
  23. Marine Modelling Unit                       Townsville, Australia.
  24. Dept. Civil and Systems Engineering         csrdh@marlin.jcu.edu.au
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