Hi, On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:52 PM, dos386 <dos...@gmail.com> wrote: > > http://www.freedos.org/software/?cat=base > > The list pretends many things (HIMEMX, FREECOM, DISKCOPY, ...) > to have been updated recently 2011, but this is not true.
As mentioned, it's because the date is from when the LSM was updated, not the files themselves. > Also the directory timestamps at ibibio are bad / misleading, but > surprisingly not for DISKCOPY. To my eyes, all the dirs for Diskcopy seem to have the same date (21 Jan 2008), so I don't see how it's better here. > IIRC I had already complained about this some time ago, I can vaguely understand wanting to easily know when something was last updated, but I don't think it's hugely important (or realistic) here. > isn't there a "set directory timestamps to newest content" ? Dunno, I'm pretty *nix noobish, so I couldn't tell you. Anyways, iBiblio is the server, and they run Linux, so whatever Linux does or accepts is what you have to live with: [freedos@login1 ~]$ uptime 14:19:27 up 60 days, 4:59, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.05, 0.09 [freedos@login1 ~]$ whoami freedos [freedos@login1 ~]$ uname -a Linux login1.ibiblio.org 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue May 31 13:22:04 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I did just now create a temporary subdir under /tmp, used "touch -r" to use a different file as reference for date, which changed it to 2005, but as soon as you do anything in the newly-created subdir (e.g. create a new text file), the datestamp (at least as shown by default "ls") resets to current date. So yeah, that's *nix for ya. I think it'd be too tedious to re-date everything in the archive, esp. for so little benefit. In other words, if you want to know when something was updated, it's probably best just to download it and see for yourself. (Even that's not immune to misleading dates, e.g. it could be a newer recompile of an older tool. And some rare packages erroneously have dates in the future. This is why some people manually datestamp their documents internally.) BTW, I have already been trying to use "unzip -T" on any files I upload, but usually I don't go searching around applying that to everything and the kitchen sink. ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
