From: jaduboi AT ibm DOT net (Jan Dubois)
Subject: gunzip and tar always set file date to 01.01.70
18 Jan 1997 08:38:05 -0800
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I downloaded the 17.1b versions of cygwin.dll, gunzip.exe and tar.exe.
When I run "gunzip -d tar.tar.gz" from a cmd.exe commandline the
resulting file gets a date of 01.01.70 and a time normally between 00:55
and 01:00. The same is true for files extracted using "tar -xvf".=20

I had the same problem with the 16b version. the "touch" command however
seems to work correctly. Is this a know problem? Is there a workaround?

I'm using the german version of NT 4.0 without any fixpacks installed.

Thanks,
Jan.
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