To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: djtart/x timestamps problem
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 94 23:05:38 CEST
From: Bruno Fassino <MC4507 AT mclink DOT it>


I'm using djgpp 1.11maint5 on a DOS 6.2 system.
I found that djtart/djtarx prints/sets incorrect timestamps.
Here is an example, where master.tar is a valid Unix tar archive:

G:\NCUBE>djtart master.tar
drwx an -32 -13:-19:-01 1         0 master_slave/
drwx an -32 -13:-19:-01 1         0 master_slave/host/
drwx an -32 -13:-19:-01 1         0 master_slave/node/
-rw- an -32 -13:-19:-01 1       681 master_slave/node/Makefile
-rw- an -32 -13:-19:-01 1        82 master_slave/node/abort.c
-rw- an -32 -13:-19:-01 1      1066 master_slave/node/masterc.c

Using a different dos version of tar, the problem doesn't occur:

G:\NCUBE>\tar\tar tvf master.tar
rw-r--r-- 0/30    681 Jan 25 04:44 1994 master_slave/node/Makefile
rw-r--r-- 0/30     82 Jan 24 20:20 1994 master_slave/node/abort.c
rw-r--r-- 0/30   1066 Jan 25 04:39 1994 master_slave/node/masterc.c

Djtart/djtarx are really useful in the case of archives containing 
files with long names creating conflict if reduced to 8.3 DOS naming 
convention, so the timestamps problem is a minor one.
Has anyone else seen this problem?  Thank you in advance.

Sincerely,
           Bruno Fassino