From: Jacques DOT Lavictoire AT geocan DOT nrcan DOT gc DOT ca (Lavictoire, Jacques) Subject: RE: B19.1: tar -u option under NT 4.0 SP3 does not update properl y 11 Jul 1998 07:12:33 -0700 Message-ID: <2951561DB3DDD0118FEC00805FFE98050138A122.cygnus.gnu-win32@s5-ccr-r1.ccrs.emr.ca> To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com, Jacques Lavictoire , "'earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com'" Thanks for the information on the FAT problem but these files are on an NTFS filesystem. Thanks Jack > ---------- > From: Earnie Boyd[SMTP:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com] > Reply To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com > Sent: Friday, July 10, 1998 9:15 AM > To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com; Jacques Lavictoire > Subject: Re: B19.1: tar -u option under NT 4.0 SP3 does not > update properly > > > 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. > > > > ---Jacques Lavictoire wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm new to gnu-win32 so it might just be me but repeating a tar > job > > with -u should update only if the files are newer then the previous > > tarred files correct . But it keeps adding the files but they are > all > > the same set of files exactly. An example is as follows > > > > bash-2.01$ tar -v -u /temp/ati/* -f /temp/test1.tar > > tar: Removing leading `/' from absolute path names in the archive > > temp/ati/DE5110C1.EXE > > temp/ati/MAKEDISK.BAT > > temp/ati/MAKEDISK.PIF > > bash-2.01$ tar -v -u /temp/ati/* -f /temp/test1.tar > > tar: Removing leading `/' from absolute path names in the archive > > temp/ati/DE5110C1.EXE > > temp/ati/MAKEDISK.BAT > > temp/ati/MAKEDISK.PIF > > bash-2.01$ tar -v -u /temp/ati/* -f /temp/test1.tar > > tar: Removing leading `/' from absolute path names in the archive > > temp/ati/DE5110C1.EXE > > temp/ati/MAKEDISK.BAT > > temp/ati/MAKEDISK.PIF > > > > After this you would expect, if I'm reading the help on tar > properly, > > that I should only have one copy of the files since they haven't > changed > > at all. Is this a problem ? > > > > Thank You > > > > Jack > > > > > > -- > > > > Jacques Lavictoire Systems Support > > Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada > > 588 Booth Street, Room G3, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0Y7 > > Email: jacques DOT lavictoire AT ccrs DOT nrcan DOT gc DOT ca > > Phone: (613) 947-1366 Fax: (613) 947-1408 > > > > > > - > > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a > message to > > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > > > > > == > - \\||// > ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- > --earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com-- > ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- > > > > _________________________________________________________ > DO YOU YAHOO!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".