To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Mon, 17 Jan 2000 07:45:53 0000
From:	"Nimrod Alonzo Abing" <synflood AT eudoramail DOT com>
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Subject:	Problems with Gnu File Utilities 3.16 for MSDOG
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Hello. Firstly I would like to say sorry for my last post about Visual FoxPro and GPL. It was inappropriate for this mailing list. I sent it by mistake to this list instead of another users mailing list.

Now regarding my problem which concerns the Gnu File Utilities, in particular "ls". Below is some output from the ls program:

total 101
drwxr-xr-x  14 dosuser  root         1824 Dec  2 14:09 allegro
drwxr-xr-x   2 dosuser  root         5472 Nov  5 10:51 bin
drwxr-xr-x   4 dosuser  root           64 Nov  5 10:52 contrib
-rw-r--r--   1 dosuser  root        17982 Nov  1  1995 copying
-rw-r--r--   1 dosuser  root         2084 Jun  3  1999 copying.dj
-rw-r--r--   1 dosuser  root        25265 Nov  1  1995 copying.lib
-rw-r--r--   1 dosuser  root         3522 Dec 24 15:19 djgpp.env

... Trimmed it down a bit ...

drwxr-xr-x   6 dosuser  root          128 Nov  5 10:52 share
drwxr-xr-x   3 dosuser  root          256 Nov 18 09:47 src
drwxr-xr-x   2 dosuser  root           64 Nov  5 10:51 tmp

As you can see, the year reported for some files is wrong, especially for directories. The date for some files are displayed as NN:NN instead of YYYY. djgpp.env in this example is dated Dec 24, 1999. This also fails for 2000 dates. Emacs dired, as a result, also reports wrong file dates, since it just redirects the output of ls to the dired buffer.

Has anyone made some bug-fixes to solve this problem? Where can I find them? I ask this question so that I'll know if I have to make them myself. Otherwise, I'd be wasting my time fixing a problem that someone else has already fixed.

Any response to this message, adverse or otherwise, is welcomed.

Thanks...

oOOOo Synflood oOOOo



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