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From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
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Subject: Re: cp complains about timestamps of directories
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:42:26 -0600 (CST)
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> > But actually it *DOES* work with Windows 2000 and Windows XP - directories
> > have the correct dates.  (This is a byproduct of Andrew's patch).
> 
> In my testing on one W2K system, it didn't work reliably--or not at all, 
> I forget which.  It definitely doesn't work on W98SE.

cp didn't work?  Or the underlying interrupt?

If cp this was probably pre-refresh?

The set date function has a branch added in the Win2K patches.  It can 
do it two different ways.  The old way didn't work reliably on Win2K/XP,
the "new" way which works with directories didn't work reliably with
Win95 (and doesn't exist at all under DOS since it's LFN related) so 
it's not even tried except on NT and LFN=y.  

> Until the lion's share of the users use W2K/XP, we should keep 
> suppressing the warning, IMHO.

I agree with this.