Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 21:24:29 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Hubert Toullec <toullec AT banquepopulaire DOT fr>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: cp strange behaviour
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On 30 Sep 1998, Hubert Toullec wrote:

> On one computer (home), the command "cp -p fileX dirX" works
> perfectly (ie, timestamps are preserved) while on the other (office), date
> and time of the copied file are set to the present.

Are you sure there isn't some other cp.exe or cp.com lurking somewhere
on the PATH on the second machine?

If not, maybe one of the disks is a non-local disk mounted with some
buggy/misconfigured network software?